Dave_L Posted March 13, 2005 Share Posted March 13, 2005 I recently imported all my mail from Outlook Express to Mozilla Thunderbird. It worked ok, except that the imported mail had some odd lines at the beginning: From - Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 1965 X-Mozilla-Status: 0000 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: <munged[at]example.com> ... Does this look like a bug, or maybe a result of some test/debug code? Will these extra "headers" be a problem if I replied to or forwarded one of these emails? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agsteele Posted March 13, 2005 Share Posted March 13, 2005 I recently imported all my mail from Outlook Express to Mozilla Thunderbird. [snip] Will these extra "headers" be a problem if I replied to or forwarded one of these emails? 25404[/snapback] Well, I can't see that it would be a problem on the assumption that these have been added as a group of lines at the top of the headers. It rather depends on how they are interpreted down the line from you but the 'From' line isn't a standard header format and the other two are 'X-Mozilla' tokens and should not be interpreted by any parsing of the headers. Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shmengie Posted March 13, 2005 Share Posted March 13, 2005 I've been submitting reports from Thunderbird source w/out incident. The "From" line is an antiquated standard used on unix systems, to separate mail messages in the mailbox. Since Mozilla runs on mutiple platforms (including Unix/Linux) I guess they chose that as the start of the mail. Crazyness: If you send a mail to yourself on (presumably any e-mailer) and have a blank line before a prior to a line that starts with the word "From", the e-mail will obfuscate the "from" so that it won't be recognised as a blanks line preceding the "From" keyword. Tho I haven't tracked it down, I think the e-mailer is responsible for mangeling the from, it could be the SMTP server that does this job. Other extra headers usually starting with "X" have no meaning, unless the e-mail reader is looking for them, and are quitely ignored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_L Posted March 14, 2005 Author Share Posted March 14, 2005 Thanks for the replies. Those three lines are at the beginning, with nothing preceding them, so I guess there won't be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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