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Article #120Re: Wanted: Messed-Up Mail Headers
From: Bruce E. Howells
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 21:11
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 21:11
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I'm not intending to parse From:, Sender:, Reply-to:, or Maybe-If-I'm-Lucky-It'll-Get-To: - if the address is broken enough that our professionally maintained mailer can't cope with it, I doubt that some code I'll leave here when I graduate can... Rather, I'm worried about things coming in that will break trying to read the header - stuff like a full name and no address in From: - which I've seen coming from PSUVM occasionally. Things like 100-address To: lines, and extremely long Subject: lines that people have sent. Basically, my concern is that this thing not read in a piece of mail, try to parse it, choke, die, and lose the user's mail... The mail-transport-agent level stuff I'm leaving to mailer - let it worry! Bruce Howells, beh@bu-pub.bu.edu | engnbsc@buacca (BITNet) - Not an official document of Boston University Information Technology
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!bass!beh From: beh@bass.bu.edu (Bruce E. Howells) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Wanted: Messed-Up Mail Headers Message-ID: <63938@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 7 Sep 90 21:11:43 GMT References: <63881@bu.edu.bu.edu> <3301@decuac.DEC.COM> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston University Lines: 17