On Thu, 6 May 2004, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> Damn, you've beaten me by 5 secs ;)
And me by about the same, only because I went out to do some important
shopping before tackling the issue. :-)
> Yes, the code looks useless. Looks like Philip already wanted to fix it,
> but left the broken code lying around.
Yup. I'm getting older... big birthday next week :-( And I do mean :-(
and not :-)
> I've quickly looked over the rfc, and it's IMHO not very clear about it.
>
> <quote>
> Header fields are lines composed of a field name, followed by a colon
> (":"), followed by a field body, and terminated by CRLF. A field
> name MUST be composed of printable US-ASCII characters (i.e.,
> characters that have values between 33 and 126, inclusive), except
> colon.
> </quote>
I've checked backwards. The oldest release I have is 1.62; it has the
same code. I have some older ChangeLogs, but they make no mention of any
change. So allowing spaces between the name and the colon is *very* old.
My suspicion is that Some Other MTA (tm) allows it, just like it allows
spaces between the name and the colon in alias files.
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