This particular topic s dedicated to the more technically oriented among you. Most will have no interest in this at all, and that's as it should be.
QuickSilver uses a mixmaster feature called header pasting to overcome mixmaster's 80 character maximum header length restriction. Essentially some of the message headers are moved down to the body of the message where the 80 char limit doesn't exist. Mixmaster uses a special syntax to achieve this. It's done behind the scenes and just before mixmaster encrypts the message. You won't normally see this, but here's an example of a message after header(s) have been pasted:
Fcc: outbox Host: quicksilvermail.net From: QuickSilver <quicksilver@quicksilvermail.net> Chain: *,*,*; copies=2; To: John Doe <jdoe@hisisp.net> ## Subject: How's it hangin! Did you ever get that old Ford running? ~~
Depending on the message, more headers may be pasted. Here's a USENET article with headers pasted:
Fcc: outbox Host: quicksilvermail.net From: QuickSilverChain: *,* To: mail2news@dizum.com, ## References: <20091231030046.F314581495@fleegle.mixmin.net> <hhiacu$fff$1@news.mixmin.net> <tm6%m.25672$Ic5.11572@newsfe16.ams2> <d7tpj551k0gtq1qte705r5diqs5h0fcurg@news.stray.cat.edu> <20091231231309.027A7814E0@fleegle.mixmin.net> Newsgroups: alt.privacy, alt.privacy.anon-server Subject: Looking for reliable remailers! Anybody got a list of current stats sources? TIA ~~
As noted, QS does this pasting automatically, behind the scenes. You will never be aware of it happening. However, if you wish to paste headers yourself that's not a problem--though I doubt You'll achieve any better results than QS. Be that as it may, if you wish to paste headers yourself, just do it. When QS prepares to do the header pasting it looks to see if the ## are already present. If so, it aborts the pasting operation and continues with the message as is.