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Author: Fred Viles
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Spam using a space to separate message body and header...
On 3 Sep 2005 at 11:56, Ted Cooper wrote about
    "Re: [exim] Spam using a space to se":


|...
| To the RFC's!

|...
|    However, where CFWS occurs in this standard, it MUST NOT be inserted
|    in such a way that any line of a folded header field is made up
|    entirely of WSP characters and nothing else.


Interesting. So it seems arguable that exim should not have
interpreted the <CRLF><space><CRLF> as a valid header continuation
line. Since it is also not a valid header first line, it should have
signaled the end of the headers, and been treated as the first
message body line.

- Fred