On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Kyle Wheeler<kyle-m...@memoryhole.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Tuesday, August 11 at 07:41 PM, quoth Patrick Gen Paul: >>Does anyone know why this is happening, and how I can work around it? > > I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head: his "From:" header > is invalid. Mutt can see that it's invalid, and so refuses to trust > it. As I see it, mutt is behaving defensively. But more specifically, > several of those characters are invalid in email addresses, which > demonstrates that the header does not contain trustworthy data. > > Since mutt cannot trust the From header, and thus cannot properly > decode that header, it cannot *use* that header. So mutt treats the > message almost as if it didn't have that header. > > For a metaphor: if you were in a restaurant and found something that > shouldn't be there (e.g. a screw) in the sauce on the dish you > ordered, what would you do? Would you just take the screw out, assume > that the sauce is fine, and continue eating? Or would you choose not > to eat the sauce? Mutt, like you, chooses not to eat the sauce. > > Make sense?
In a roundabout way, as you probably intended. I'm mostly trying to build some form of argumentation that may convince this annoying poster to mend his ways. Is there a well-respected mail etiquette, or RFC even, that I could refer him to? I have contacted the poster via the list and asked him to contact me off-list to discuss further but he has not responded yet. I'm giving him another 24 hours before I killfile him for good. Thank you for your comments, much appreciated. Gen-Paul
