Re: Problem with mhl.format

[aalinovi]

I don't know what it means but I notice that if I run show all header
fields show up despite being ignored in both mhl.format and mhl.headers.
However, if I use Paul Fox's ml script and run ml on the message those
header fields are gone.

In message <f4500c65011301a7@cadfael.fios-router.home>, aalinovi@riseup.net 
writes:
>In message <20220219233546.22FA318CC0E@pb-smtp20.pobox.com>, Ken Hornstein=
> writes:
>>
>>Is it possible the "certain mail" that ignores mhl.headers are not
>>MIME messages?  Specifically, do those messages meet the following
>>criteria:
>>
>>- Either lack a top-level Content-Type header, or contain a Content-Type
>>  header that specifies text/plain with either a us-ascii character
>>  set or your native character set
>>- Either lack a Content-Transfer-Encoding header, or contain a C-T-E
>>  header specifying an encoding of 7bit, 8bit, or binary.
>>
>>If the message is considered "text" (by passing BOTH of the above
>>tests), then "show" will run mhl to display the message, which uses
>>mhl.format to display the ENTIRE messages.
>>
>>If the message is considered "nontext" (by failing either one of the
>>above tests) then "show" runs "mhshow" to display the message, which
>>uses mhl to display the headers (which by default uses mhl.headers)
>>and then decodes parts of the msssage body that it can.
>>
>>So if you want to exclude headers in ALL messages, you need to put
>>them in both mhl.headers and mhl.format.  That's because of nmh's
>>incomplete MIME handling.  Sigh.
>>
>>--Ken
>
>This particular message has the following header field:
>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>From: Arthur Alinovi <aalinovi@riseup.net>
>Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0)
>Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:55:10 -0500
>
>After copying all of my "ignore" lines from ~/Mail/mhl.headers to
>~/Mail/mhl.format, they still show up.
>
>Mr Paul Fox wonders if having the ignores lines broken up as I do will
>work or if they should be one long line which he says is how he has it.
>
>Thank you
>
>Arthur
>