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Article #1862Re: Who comments out the From_ lines?
From: Johnny Eriksson
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 1990 20:23
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 1990 20:23
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In article <8134@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes: ) From_ to >From_ conversions are a sendmail-ism, so therefore I ) don't have anything good to say about them ;-). MMDF, of course, ) does it better by using a non-printable string as the message ) seperator. You're gauranteed that "^A^A^A^A" doesn't appear ) in messages because RFC-822 doesn't allow for it.. Wrong. RFC822 allows for all ASCII characters (0.-127. inclusive) to appear in message bodies. The same goes for the text on the Subject line. "Subject: ^A^A^A^A" is perfectly legal... --Johnny
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!bygg From: bygg@sunic.sunet.se (Johnny Eriksson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Who comments out the From_ lines? Message-ID: <2222@sunic.sunet.se> Date: 22 Oct 90 20:23:48 GMT References: <1990Oct21.160918.9684@smsc.sony.com> <8134@gollum.twg.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 13