Attachment 145267 Details for Bug 222132 – A description of various experiments I ran to isolate the problem.

A description of various experiments I ran to isolate the problem.

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>Running FC6 on an i386 box:
>
>I used emacs Mail-mode to send an email msg, under the following
>conditions: 
>
>(*) My .procmailrc file was temporarily renamed.
>(*) I ran emacs via the shell command
>       emacs -q --no-site-file
>
>In other words, under the most vanilla conditions imaginable.
>
>The *mail* buffer contained the following (indented one space, for
>readability): 
>
> To: agw
> Subject: test msg
> --text follows this line--
> This is a test
>
>When I used emacs RMAIL-mode to read this msg, it appeared as follows
>(showing the full headers):
>
> X-Coding-System: undecided-unix
> Mail-from: From agw@dsm.fordham.edu  Wed Jan 10 10:52:28 2007
> Return-Path: <agw@dsm.fordham.edu>
> Received: from sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu (sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu [150.108.64.57])
> 	by dsm.dsm.fordham.edu (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l0AFqSuK029830
> 	for <agw@dsm.fordham.edu>; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:52:28 -0500
> Received: from sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu (sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu [127.0.0.1])
> 	by sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0AFqSep006280
> 	for <agw@sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu>; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:52:28 -0500
> Received: (from agw@localhost)
> 	by sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l0AFqSqA006279
> 	for agw; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:52:28 -0500
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:52:28 -0500
> From: Art Werschulz <agw@dsm.fordham.edu>
> Message-Id: <200701101552.l0AFqSqA006279@sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu>
> To: agw@dsm.fordham.edu
>
> From: Art Werschulz <agw@sobolev.dsm.fordham.edu>
> To: agw
> Subject: test msg
>
> This is a test.
>
>Note the extra blank line, as well as repeated From: and To: headers.
>
>It appears to me that this may be a problem with Mail-mode.  As a
>test, I composed a msg using /bin/mail.  Said msg did *not* contain
>the blank line and extra headers.
>
>I also composed a msg using RMAIL-mode on an FC5 box.  Once again,
>the msg did *not* contain the blank line and extra headers.
>
>Under normal circumstances, this would lead me to suspect that the
>culprit was Mail-mode on the FC6 box.  However, the output of
>emacs-version on the FC5 box was
>  GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2006-03-07 on hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com
>and the output of emacs-version on the FC6 box was
>  GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) 
>  of 2006-08-03 on ls20-bc2-14.build.redhat.com 
>Since the two emacs versions are identical, they should be using the
>same Mail-mode version.

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