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Article #300Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines
From: Matt Madison
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:34
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:34
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In article <00963690.AA79D4E0.14306@swdev.si.com>, "Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425" writes: >Matthew Madison (madison@tgv.com) writes: > >>BTW, it appears that the software that gateways the MX-List mailing list >>to the vmsnet.mail.mx newsgroup (which is where I read this stuff) also has >>problems with your From: line, most likely because it spans multiple lines. > >When I read the RFC, it apeared to say that folded lines were perfectly >legitimate and that they are supposed to be handled by RFC-compliant mailers. >Is it, then, that the gateway isn't RFC-compliant? There isn't really an RFC for this sort of gateway. But if you mean that it's not handling legitimately constructed multi-line RFC822 headers, then the answer is yes. And if your next question is "is that OK?" the answer is probably no. I've CC'd Mark Berryman on this. Care to comment, Mark? -Matt -- Matthew Madison | madison@tgv.com | +1 408 427 4366 TGV, Inc. | 603 Mission Street | Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!netsys!decwrl!ames!tgv.com!MADISON From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison) Subject: Re: VMS MAIL personal names / From: lines Message-ID: <1992Nov10.223407.14811@news.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov Reply-To: madison@tgv.com Organization: The Foundation for Dinner Peas References: <00963690.AA79D4E0.14306@swdev.si.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:34:07 GMT Lines: 22