Re: Headers stripped out?

[Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>]

On January 3, 2001 at 21:37, Gerry Hickman wrote:

> When dealing with spam and viruses, it's important to be able to view
> the full headers of the original message, but it seems MHonArc strips
> some of them out. e.g:
> 
> Received: from ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu (ex1.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.2.9])
> 
> It would be nice if you could hit "View|Source" in the browser and see
> the rest of the mail headers rather than having to trawl through
> thousands of single messages looking for the missing info.

If you mean scanning raw messages, that is what grep is for.  If
you have the message-id, you can just grep for it over the raw mail
files.

As for mhonarc and headers, in the special comment declarations, the
only headers that are preserved are the ones needed for database
reconstruction.

--ewh