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Article #3882NeXTMail: Return Address Parser
From: Gerry Key
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:06
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:06
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NeXTMail appears to have problems replying to a From-address with imbedded newlines. For example, if the From: line of an incoming message appears as follows: From: Joe Schmoe <JOE_SCHMOE@SOMEHOST.COM> because some mailer along the way inserted a newline in a too-long address, when NeXTMail responds to such a message you wind up with: To: Joe Schmoe I thought RFC 822 specified that mailers were supposed to throw out newlines, tabs, and other extraneous characters when creating a To: line from a From: line, and to extract only the well formed addresses (i.e., in this case, what's in the angle brackets). We reported this problem to NeXT, but were told no one else had reported it and to contact NeXT Technical Support where they would listen to our problem for a fee. To me, this is a bug, not a user support problem. Has anyone (everyone?) else seen this behavior? Is there a work-around? --Gerry Key Computer Sciences Corporation San Diego, CA Internet: key@csc.com (NeXTMail OK) FAX: 619.225.2583 Voice: 619.225.2504
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!garrot.DMI.USherb.CA!uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!linac!uwm.edu!ogicse!network.ucsd.edu!news!manta!usenet From: key@blacksea.csc.com (Gerry Key) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXTMail: Return Address Parser Keywords: NeXTMail Address Parser Message-ID: <1992Nov17.180630.2352@nosc.mil> Date: 17 Nov 92 18:06:30 GMT Article-I.D.: nosc.1992Nov17.180630.2352 Sender: usenet@nosc.mil (Network News) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA Lines: 29