Re: [Exim] \0 in headers

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Jetmore
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] \0 in headers
On Fri, 9 May 2003, John Jetmore wrote:

> Are nulls legal in email headers (I mean any header, not any specific
> one)? I just ran into a problem not accounting on embedded nulls in the
> body of messages and I'm trying to figure out if I should be worried about
> the headers also.


If by "legal" you mean "conforms to the RFC", the answer is no. But that
doesn't stop people sending non-conforming messages...

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