edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (11/29/89)
I just discovered a problem with Elm concerning a "From:" header line
that covers more than one line. Today, I got a message from someone
whose mailing system happens to create a "From:" line that occupies
*two* lines instead of one. First, I thought his mailer was buggy (I
had never seen this before !!), then I took my copy of RFC822 and
concluded that this is a *valid* way of constructing a "From:" line,
although nobody seems to do it that way...
Below is a symbolic representation of what the (relevant) headers in
the message looked like (the guy seems to be quite a bit verbose on
what his daily routine is ;-)):
From: "My Name, this_is_what_i_usually_do_when_i_am_at_work_and_i_am_verbose"
<myloginname@subdom2.subdom1.nl>
To: edwin@cs.ruu.nl
Subject: ...
I've configured Elm to USE_EMBEDDED_ADDRESSES (i.e. trust and
use 'Reply-To:' and 'From:' fields) and that usually works fine.
On this message, Elm took the entire string between double quotes
as the return address and added the same field without quotes as
comment between '(' and ')'; it didn't notice the *real* mail
address on the next line (I tried 'mailx' as well: it did!).
Although I have my suspicions on the "From:" line, it seems legal
RFC822 to me (Right ??).
I am about to call this a bug (or at least Elm doesn't obey RFC822
on this specific point), but maybe I'm missing something. I hope
some of you will comment on this, especially the Elm development
group... (by the way: i'm running ELM2.2 PL14)
--[ Edwin ]--
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Edwin Kremer, Department of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
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E-Mail: edwin@cs.ruu.nl | UUCP to: ...!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwinsyd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (11/30/89)
edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) writes: >I just discovered a problem with Elm concerning a "From:" header line >that covers more than one line. Its a known bug, and has been corrected in 2.3. I forget, for the moment, why I didn't put it into a 2.2 patch, but I had some reason at the time. -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or {bpa,vu-vlsi}!dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235