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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: 822 header lines in MAIL messages
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Date: 11 Dec 89 13:21:31 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET>
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>I hope you can handle something like:
>
>Problem: I actually saw an article that was posted like this. I started out
>         with something that looked like an RFC822 mail header, but was
>         actually several thousand characters of text that were the body of
>         the message.  An older version of news die horribly when processing
>         this message because it thought the line was a (continued) header and
>         tried to read it all in. The fix you put in news was to stop reading
>         headers when you found a Newsgroups: header line. How will you handle
>         something like this in mail?
     
The modifications to the mail reader will NOT handle this case - with the
leading blanks in subsequent lines this is a valid RFC822 header (!)
     
Geoff Huston