Re: [Exim] Unqualified addresses in To: header

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著者: Philip Hazel
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To: Ian D Crorie
CC: exim-users
題目: Re: [Exim] Unqualified addresses in To: header
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Ian D Crorie wrote:

> To: addr1 addr2    


> Some MUAs, like Simeon, cannot cope with parsing these headers (for things
> like group replies) and a look at RFC822 leads me to believe that they
> aren't legal,


They are indeed illegal.

> but on the other hand I find it hard to believe that these
> programs have been producing badly formed headers for the last 18 years.


I don't. Few MTAs bother to check headers, and receiving MUAs maybe
papered over them. Or ignored them.

> Can anyone help?    We use a mixture of exim 3.12 and 3.03 on Alphas,
> Suns, HPs and RedHat Linux.


This is clearly another case for the all-singing, all-dancing message
sanitizer I proposed recently.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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