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From: beh@bass.bu.edu (Bruce E. Howells)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Messed-Up Mail Headers
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Date: 7 Sep 90 21:11:43 GMT
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I'm not intending to parse From:, Sender:, Reply-to:, or
Maybe-If-I'm-Lucky-It'll-Get-To: - if the address is broken enough that our
professionally maintained mailer can't cope with it, I doubt that some code
I'll leave here when I graduate can...

Rather, I'm worried about things coming in that will break trying to read
the header - stuff like a full name and no address in From: - which I've
seen coming from PSUVM occasionally.  Things like 100-address To: lines,
and extremely long Subject: lines that people have sent.

Basically, my concern is that this thing not read in a piece of mail, try
to parse it, choke, die, and lose the user's mail...  The
mail-transport-agent level stuff I'm leaving to mailer - let it worry!

Bruce Howells,   beh@bu-pub.bu.edu  |   engnbsc@buacca (BITNet)
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