[WikiEN-l] Top posting poll; was Re: MONGO and the ArbCom

[Ilmari Karonen]

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>  > Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
>  > >
>  > > http://mailformat.dan.info/tools/check.html
>  >
>  > Bug report: I just submitted one of my emails to your checker. It said
>  > I didn't have a date header, from header or subject line - the message
>  > had all three.
> 
> Since you're on Gmail, the most likely problem is (as documented in the 
> information about getting a full dump of a message, headers and all, at 
> the bottom of the page) that you copied-and-pasted the message with a 
> blank line above the headers, the way Gmail presents it when you view 
> the message source.  The MIME-parsing library I use follows the 
> standards and regards the headers as ending with the first blank line, 
> meaning that it treats the headers as part of the body instead.  Delete 
> the blank line from the top of the message in the input box and it 
> should work.

I would say this is a bug in the checker.  If presented with a message 
that _begins_ with a blank line, it should either:

a) assume the blank line is there by mistake and remove it, or

b) treat the message as not having any headers, in which case it should 
notify the user of this and not bother with further header checks.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen