On Monday 22 July 2019 15:48:08 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, July 22, 2019 11:52:59 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:40:59AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > * but when I view source in my email client (kmail 3.n), I see > > > just the "* > > > > > > From: Reco" that I see when viewing the email "normally". > > > > > > So, it seems, something is filtering out a lot of the content of > > > the email before it gets to me (I don't think anything else in my > > > system would be filtering anything out -- emails come directly > > > from my ISP to my email client. > > > > > > A mystery that I won't dig into any deeper for now. > > > > Well, there are two possibilities. One is that the messages are > > actually being truncated during transmission. The other is that > > your email user agent is not showing you the full message text. > > > > The obvious way to figure out which one it is would be to read the > > email in a different way (cat, less, mutt, mailx, ...). > > Ok, that fooled me -- I expected that the kmail command "view source" > would let me see the entire email regardless of how it might be > "rendered" in the kmail text box, but I was wrong. > > When I view that email in kwrite, I see all of the content, and, then > around the email address (recovery...@enotuniq.net, after the * From: > Reco in the body of the email I see two characters that look like > triangles -- I'll try looking at those in hexedit... > > Ok, it looks like there is a 0x00 in the byte before the email address > (which is presumably disabling all further rendering in this version > of kmail (1.13.7, on kde 4.8.4), and a 0x09 in the byte after the > email address. > > So, I guess I have a way to send secret messages (to, at least, myself > ;-)
Me too. That make 3 bugs in V1.9.1 that need some tlc. And one of them is a major PITA to fix, it can occasionally scramble the indexes. But, its still an old friend. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>