Uday,
    Thanks for getting back to me and sorry for not being clear and not debugging my
    situation more thoroughly.

    The situation occurs when I reply to someone's mail message.  Their "References:"
    headers are included but the continuation  lines do not start with whitespace.  When I
    do not include my .emacs file nor the system startup file I do not get the error
    mentioned below.  I will slowly add various packages and see which is the offending
    package that causes the error.

    For know remove the bug report.  Mea culpa.
--
Wojciech Komornicki                                                   Dept of Mathematics
wnk at hamline.edu                                                     Hamline University
http://wnk.hamline.edu/~wnk/                                            St Paul, MN 55104
                                                                                      USA

The goal of collegiate mathematics is the understanding of mathematical ideas per se. The
role of applications is to enhance that understanding and not vice versa.
                                                                         Saunders MacLane

>>>>> "Uday" == Uday Reddy <email address hidden> writes:

  Uday:> Wojciech Komornicki writes:
  Uday:> > Reproduce: To reproduce you need a message from a mailer which does not
  Uday:> > format its headers correctly.

  Uday:> Hi,

  Uday:> The error you are getting is in mail-send, which is dealing with the message
  Uday:> you have composed.  What does this have to do with other mailers?

  Uday:> In any case, I would need to have a sample message composition that produces
  Uday:> the problem.

  Uday:> Also, please let me know what happens if you run VM with all its default
  Uday:> settings.

  Uday:> Cheers,
  Uday:> Uday

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  Uday:> of the bug.
  Uday:> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777570

  wnk:> Title:
  wnk:>   Incorrect inclusion of multiline headers

  wnk:> Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs:
  wnk:>   New

  wnk:> Bug description:
  wnk:>   Using: vm-8.1.1
  wnk:>   Debug trace:
  wnk:>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid header line (maybe a continuation line lacks initial whitespace)")
  wnk:>     signal(error ("Invalid header line (maybe a continuation line lacks initial whitespace)"))
  wnk:>     error("Invalid header line (maybe a continuation line lacks initial whitespace)")
  wnk:>     mail-send()
  wnk:>     vm-mail-send()
  wnk:>     vm-mail-send-and-exit(nil)
  wnk:>     call-interactively(vm-mail-send-and-exit nil nil)
  wnk:>   Reproduce: To reproduce you need a message from a mailer which does not format its headers correctly.

  wnk:>   Some mailers include multiline headers without a space character indicate continuation of the header. For example
  wnk:>       References: <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  wnk:>       <xxxxxxxxxxx>
  wnk:>   The second line should be indented preferrably be a tab.
  wnk:>   I suggest (I am not an expert on mail syntax) the following in  vm-mail-mode-show-headers
  wnk:>      (save-excursion
  wnk:>       (goto-char (point-min))
  wnk:>       (while (not (looking-at "--text follows"))
  wnk:>         (forward-line 1)
  wnk:>         (if (looking-at "<")
  wnk:>        (insert-char 9 1))
  wnk:>   I have modiffied the code in my implementation to fix the annoying message of invalid headers.

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