Discussion:
Messages now blank?
Jon Baumgartner
2007-08-29 13:21:46 UTC
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Suddenly, all messages are coming in blank. I get the sender and the
subject, but nothing in the body displays in my email client. The
messages start with this (edited for brevity):

<!--web39603-->




<html>
<head>
<title>
Yahoo! Mail - jon_baumgartner-/***@public.gmane.org</title>
<script>
<!--
if(typeof top.frames["wmailmain"] != "undefined")
window.open("http://mail.yahoo.com", "_top");
// -->
</script>

<noscript>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; URL=/ym/login?nojs=1">

<style>* { visibility: hidden; }</style>
<script>
document.write('<style>* { visibility: visible; }</style>');
</script>
</noscript>







<link rel="stylesheet"
href="http://l.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/pim/r/medici/16_11/mail/us/mail_blue_all.css"
type="text/css" media="all">

<script
src="http://l.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/pim/r/medici/16_11/mail/mailcommonlib.js"></script>




<script type="text/javascript">

function OnLoad()
{
LHCol_Init();
}

function attachmentsSubmit()
{
document.Attachments.submit();
}

</script>
</head>
<body>


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James
2007-08-29 15:05:54 UTC
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This has been happening for the last few days...
Installed http://fetchyahoo.sourceforge.net/ which works fine.
Post by Jon Baumgartner
Suddenly, all messages are coming in blank. I get the sender and the
subject, but nothing in the body displays in my email client. The
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James Blanford
2007-08-29 16:58:29 UTC
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Post by James
This has been happening for the last few days...
Installed http://fetchyahoo.sourceforge.net/ which
works fine.
I seem to be getting headers followed by an html virus
scan notice, but not any of the content of the email.
Oops, I better tell yosucker not to delete the message
on the server.



____________________________________________________________________________________
Need a vacation? Get great deals
to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel.
http://travel.yahoo.com/

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Jeffrey Fogel
2007-08-29 17:41:59 UTC
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I found the problem. Yahoo mucking things up again! Give me a few hours to sort it out.

--Jeffrey
Post by James
This has been happening for the last few days...
Installed http://fetchyahoo.sourceforge.net/ which
works fine.
I seem to be getting headers followed by an html virus
scan notice, but not any of the content of the email.
Oops, I better tell yosucker not to delete the message
on the server.



____________________________________________________________________________________
Need a vacation? Get great deals
to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel.
http://travel.yahoo.com/

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Jeffrey Fogel
2007-08-29 18:15:11 UTC
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Sorry, but upon further testing, it appears that it might take me a few days to fix this. If anyone has time to try and make this work, I'll send you what I've got so far.

Basic problem is that Yahoo changed the way in which you can download the text of an email. I found the changes to the links, but it now (1) gives you a redirect instead of the actual file (which is the reason for the blank emails), and (2) doesn't include the header lines in the text file. So, even after I process the redirect and download the message, it's missing all the important stuff!

Vlad, if you're around (and you have some time) the ultimate fix would include re-writing the connect/request routines to all work the same and gracefully handle as many redirects as Yahoo decides to throw at it, rather than using the "ShortPage" routines which are only good if you know the page coming is a redirect page.

--Jeffrey

Jeffrey Fogel <jabetcha-/***@public.gmane.org> wrote: I found the problem. Yahoo mucking things up again! Give me a few hours to sort it out.

--Jeffrey
Post by James
This has been happening for the last few days...
Installed http://fetchyahoo.sourceforge.net/ which
works fine.
I seem to be getting headers followed by an html virus
scan notice, but not any of the content of the email.
Oops, I better tell yosucker not to delete the message
on the server.





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