* rmail-reply produces incorrect mail header
@ 2016-04-15 18:55 enno
2016-04-16 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: enno @ 2016-04-15 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Dear emacsers,
For some time now (starting with emacs23.3) I sometimes experience that rmail-reply (or supercite, or feedmail, or whatever) produces an incorrect `To:' field. Apparently this only happens with mails from certain senders (my father for instance).
In the past I just deleted the `In-reply-to' header from the reply before sending it, ugly but worked -- unless I forgot to delete... I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently familiar with elisp to figure that one out on my own.
To me it seems that somehow the header tag `In-reply-to: ' gets lost, resulting in a `To: ' header followed by an `In-reply-to' header WITHOUT header-tag in the following line. But as stated above, this only happens with certain senders, others who supply `In-reply-to: ' as well work without trouble.
From theory to practice:
Original mail received from my dad has headers like so:
v--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From father@mailhost.xx Fri Apr 15 15:21:32 2016
Return-Path: <father@mailhost.xx>
X-Original-To: enno@localhost
Delivered-To: enno@localhost
Received: from tapas (localhost [IPv6:::1])
by tapas (Postfix) with ESMTP id E120F341D7A
for <enno@localhost>; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:21:31 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from pop.gmx.net [212.227.17.185]
by tapas with POP3 (fetchmail-6.3.26)
for <enno@localhost> (single-drop); Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:21:31 +0200 (CES
T)
Received: from some.mailhost.xx ([aaa.bbb.cc.d]) by mx-ha.gmx.net (mxgmx013) with
ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 0Lgut4-1bW5BP0taY-00oDoQ for <enno.vet@gmx.net>; Fri, 15
Apr 2016 11:00:33 +0200
Received: from [zz.yy.xxx.ww] by acertain-web.server.lan (via HTTP);
Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:00:32 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <trinity-e2fa2971-abde-4db8-8310-6a2bc9938e25-1460710832760@acertain-web>
From: father@mailhost.xx
To: enno <enno.vet@gmx.net>
[...]
^--------------------------------------------------------------------------
I hit `r' to reply, and what I see seems perfeclty sane:
v--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: enno <enno.vet@gmx.net>
To: father@mailhost.xx
In-reply-to:
<trinity-e2fa2971-abde-4db8-8310-6a2bc9938e25-1460710832760@acertain-web>
(father@mailhost.xx)
[...]
^--------------------------------------------------------------------------
But what is sent out to my smtp smarthost (and thus causes a bounce) looks like:
v--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From enno Fri Apr 15 15:53:24 +0200 2016
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:53:24 +0200
Message-Id: <1557-Fri15Apr2016155324+0200-enno.vet@gmx.net>
X-Mailer: emacs 24.5.1 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I)
From: enno <enno.vet@gmx.net>
To: father@mailhost.xx
<trinity-e2fa2971-abde-4db8-8310-6a2bc9938e25-1460710832760@acertain-web>
(father@mailhost.xx)
[...]
^--------------------------------------------------------------------------
TIA for any input,
brgds, Enno.
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* Re: rmail-reply produces incorrect mail header
2016-04-15 18:55 rmail-reply produces incorrect mail header enno
@ 2016-04-16 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2016-04-16 6:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:55:56 +0200
> From: enno <enno.vet@gmx.net>
>
> For some time now (starting with emacs23.3) I sometimes experience that rmail-reply (or supercite, or feedmail, or whatever) produces an incorrect `To:' field. Apparently this only happens with mails from certain senders (my father for instance).
>
> In the past I just deleted the `In-reply-to' header from the reply before sending it, ugly but worked -- unless I forgot to delete... I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently familiar with elisp to figure that one out on my own.
>
> To me it seems that somehow the header tag `In-reply-to: ' gets lost, resulting in a `To: ' header followed by an `In-reply-to' header WITHOUT header-tag in the following line. But as stated above, this only happens with certain senders, others who supply `In-reply-to: ' as well work without trouble.
I use Rmail all the time, and never saw any such problems.
> I hit `r' to reply, and what I see seems perfeclty sane:
>
> v--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: enno <enno.vet@gmx.net>
> To: father@mailhost.xx
> In-reply-to:
> <trinity-e2fa2971-abde-4db8-8310-6a2bc9938e25-1460710832760@acertain-web>
> (father@mailhost.xx)
> [...]
> ^--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> But what is sent out to my smtp smarthost (and thus causes a bounce) looks like:
>
> v--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >From enno Fri Apr 15 15:53:24 +0200 2016
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:53:24 +0200
> Message-Id: <1557-Fri15Apr2016155324+0200-enno.vet@gmx.net>
> X-Mailer: emacs 24.5.1 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I)
> From: enno <enno.vet@gmx.net>
> To: father@mailhost.xx
> <trinity-e2fa2971-abde-4db8-8310-6a2bc9938e25-1460710832760@acertain-web>
> (father@mailhost.xx)
> [...]
> ^--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Were you able to establish the factor(s) that cause this breakage?
IOW, what is different in those other messages where this doesn't
happen? (Or did I misunderstand, and it happens with every message
you send in reply to another?)
Anyway, I see you are using feedmail to send email from Rmail, is that
right? If so, could you try switching to a different back-end, like
message-smtp-send-it (which should be the default) or
sendmail-send-it? You see, feedmail is almost unused, so it isn't
surprising it might have such bugs.
If you must stay with feedmail for some reason, please submit a full
bug report using "M-x report-emacs-bug RET", with all the details.
(Btw, what Emacs version are you using now?)
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