#60 Duplicate "Date" header (mails rejected by gmail)

[Markus Schmidt]

When Blat is called without an -replyto command line parameter, the program adds the Date header line a 2nd time (one at the top and one before the Reply-To line), which currently causes gmail to reject the mail because it has two Date headers.

Reproduce:
send a blat mail without -replyto on the commandline and observe the -superdebug T output: The mail header gets two lines with "Date:"

As far as I can tell, the cuplrit is bldhdrs.cpp line 869 where tmpstr should not be added to the header again (tmpstr still contains the Date from the _snprintf command).

[Chip]

Which version are you looking at? Bldhdrs.cpp has not changed since January 24, and the current release does not put two Date: headers into outgoing emails, with or without -replyto option.

Here is a snippet from my log:

putline>>> DATA
superDebug: Received 36 bytes:
354 Start Mail. End with CRLF.CRLF
<<<getline<<< 354 Start Mail. End with CRLF.CRLF
superDebug: Attempting to send 59648 bytes:
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:28:39 -0600
From: Chip chip.programmer@att.net
To: Chip chip.programmer@att.net
X-Mailer: Blat v3.2.1, a Win64 (AMD64) SMTP/NNTP mailer http://www.blat.net
Message-ID: 01cfa0ae$Blat.v3.2.1$6aba9da7$134061d9@127.0.0.1
Subject: Check for two Date: header lines
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="ISO-8859-1"
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Chip