When I attempted to send email composed with the soup reader through
Souper, my remote news server rejected them all, reason: "To:" header
was absent. Was this message given by Souper or by the remote news
server ? Souper, I guess.
I made a copy of my reply packet and unzipped it to look at the
contents with a text editor. There are four-bytes peceding the "To:".
After consulting the author of the soup reader, the four-byte
information turned out to a part of SOUP specification.
I was curious how mail composed with Yarn managed to pass. I examined
Yarn reply packet in the same fashion. The four-bytes were there but
in a separate line preceding the "To:" header of each mail.
It seems to be either the remote news server can only handle
four-byte+crlf+"To:"+<rest of mail> but not four-byte+"To:"+<rest of
mail>
OR
Souper can't recognize the second format...
Hope somebody can enlighten me on it.
--
Billy