🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.mail.headers
Article #88

Re: Public domain RFC822 header parsing code?

#88
From: Steve Bacher
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:41
22 lines
1314 bytes
In article <1992Sep11.165855.12826@twg.com>,
"David Herron" <david@twg.com> writes:

>> Can anybody point me to some freely available code, preferably in C,
>> for parsing RFC822 headers - specifically email addresses as would
>> appear in a To: header?  The completer the better.
>
>Yes.
>
>Look in any comp.sources.misc archives and you'll find one written
>in YACC.  (posted by me many many moons ago while I was still a
>junior level E-Mail hacker known to the world as `david@ms.uky.edu').

...

Er - I guess I should have (also) said, "preferably some that DOESN'T
use lex or yacc"?  Y'see, I am hoping to use this in a (gasp!) IBM
mainframe email system, among other things...

--
Steve Bacher (Batchman)                 Draper Laboratory
Internet: seb@draper.com                Cambridge, MA, USA
Technical Details
Message-ID: <19920912174150SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!ns.draper.com!news.draper.com!MVS.draper.com!SEB1525
References: <1992Sep11.165855.12826@twg.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!ns.draper.com!news.draper.com!MVS.draper.com!SEB1525
From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
Subject: Re: Public domain RFC822 header parsing code?
Message-ID: <19920912174150SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
Sender: MVS NNTP News Reader <NNMVS@MVS.draper.com>
Nntp-Posting-Host: mvs.draper.com
Organization: Draper Laboratory
References: <1992Sep11.165855.12826@twg.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:41:00 GMT
Lines: 22