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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: Re: 822 header lines in MAIL messages
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Date: 15 Dec 89 22:32:43 GMT
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Mats,
     
>If my memory still serves me I do not agreee. An RFC header continues until
>the first blank (empty, null) line. Then comes the body.
>What this means is that you do not have to check for valid headers, you
>only have to check for a blank line.
>
>Of course letting the messages pass VAX-11 mail will break everything. It
>only handles From: To: and CC:. The rest of the headers you have to put in
>the body of the message, if you want to keep them.
     
Its actually the second  area I'm looking at - where a message is passed to VMS
with BOTH the VMS and the RFC822 headers, then how can NEWS see this, and strip
off BOTH header sets.
     
cheers,
Geoff