[comp.soft-sys.andrew] mail: Invalid character in References field

janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (10/26/90)

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Looks like Andrew generates an illegal separator character in the
References field when there is more than one reference.
This was sent using Zmailer, which is why I suppose its just coming to
our attention now.

-- Frank






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Date: 	Wed, 24 Oct 1990 18:24:42 PDT

A copy of your message is being returned to you because it arrived with
an illegal header according to the RFC822/976 protocol specification.
If you do not recognize the source of the bad header, perhaps you should
ask a postmaster at your site.

Your message had separate information about its recipients, so it has
been transmitted properly with a warning replacing the bad addresses.

The following annotated header(s) illustrate where the error(s) occurred:

Error in "References" header address:

	<0b9XbdwB0KEO0HoEtL@spade.parc.xerox.com>,<ob9XdagB0KGW8Jae0V@holmes.parc.xero
x.com>
						 ^-illegal reference separator



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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 1990 18:24:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Frank Halasz <halasz@spade.parc.xerox.com>
To: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re:
In-Reply-To: <ob9XdagB0KGW8Jae0V@holmes.parc.xerox.com>
References: <0b9XbdwB0KEO0HoEtL@spade.parc.xerox.com>,
	<ob9XdagB0KGW8Jae0V@holmes.parc.xerox.com>

Oh.


-- Frank

Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM (10/26/90)

I submitted a fix for this to the ITC on 7 September, and Gary
immediately incorporated it into the ITC sources.  The cutoff date for
patch 7 was 4 September.  The fix will apparently be coming out as patch
8.  (It's a one-line fix, deleting the comma in the quoted string on
line 155 of ams/libs/ms/reply.c .)

		Craig