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In article <2222@sunic.sunet.se> bygg@sunic.sunet.se (Johnny Eriksson) writes:
>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

Oops..  I know why I said that:  It generally isn't "safe" to use non-printable
characters because

The end-of-line marker can vary from system
The interpretation of TAB can vary

etc..  All of which are open to interpretation during the SMTP
conversation.  In fact, the end-of-line marker used during SMTP is
supposed to be CRLF for *all* messages, not CR, not LF .. CRLF.
(See RFC-822 section 3.3 for the EBNF of a message ..)

You gotta admit though.  Even if ^A^A^A^A is valid for a message
it's an awfully unlikely string as opposed to "From" occuring at
the beginning of the line..  I still prefer mh's way of keeping
messages in seperate files.



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