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1 total messages Started by Gerry Key Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:06
NeXTMail: Return Address Parser
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Author: Gerry Key
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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