From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE
Subject: Re: bad (i.e. serious) mail problems
Date: 31 Mar 1999 17:34:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafwvzxk705.fsf@ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:20:36 -0500"
Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> POP is not allowed to modify message bodies in any way (modulo properly
> escaped and then de-escaped 'dot lines'). The delivery agent on the mail
> host must either escape the envelope-like lines or generate a
> Content-Length header if one does not exist.
Why on earth should the delivery agent on the mail host do that? It
is not needed by SMTP, it is not needed by POP3, it is *only* needed
by mbox format. For all pop3-movemail knows, no mbox format has ever
been involved. So pop3-movemail must escape From_ lines or add the
Content-Length header.
kai
--
I'd like to welcome you and an orange juice, please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-31 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-23 23:50 Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-02-26 8:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-26 13:29 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-02-26 16:44 ` Neil Crellin
1999-02-27 3:24 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-02-27 13:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-02-28 5:19 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-02-28 5:32 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-02-28 12:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-01 16:58 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-02 15:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-02 16:06 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-04 1:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-04 17:10 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-04 20:24 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-04 20:50 ` Harry Putnam
1999-03-04 22:55 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-05 9:21 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-08 16:12 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-08 17:27 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-19 8:37 ` Simon Michael
1999-03-19 17:38 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-28 15:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-28 18:16 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-29 9:45 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-29 17:32 ` bad (i.e. serious) mail problems - solution, kind of Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-29 17:45 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-29 20:37 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-30 1:05 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-30 1:59 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-30 15:25 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-30 1:04 ` bad (i.e. serious) mail problems Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-30 1:56 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-30 15:12 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-30 15:18 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-30 22:08 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 13:13 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 15:20 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 15:34 ` Kai.Grossjohann [this message]
1999-03-30 17:10 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-31 0:30 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 1:17 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-31 1:32 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 3:06 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-31 15:34 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 15:47 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 3:23 ` Greg Stark
1999-03-31 3:37 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-31 15:36 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 16:39 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-31 12:35 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 14:47 ` Frank D. Cringle
1999-04-01 2:05 ` Russ Allbery
1999-03-31 15:11 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 15:36 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 20:29 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-04-01 9:06 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 16:21 ` Christopher K Davis
1999-03-31 20:35 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 21:24 ` Christopher K Davis
1999-04-01 1:07 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-04-01 3:27 ` Christopher K Davis
1999-04-01 9:03 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-04-01 9:23 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-04-01 22:06 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-04-02 6:54 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-04-02 10:18 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-04-02 17:51 ` Stainless Steel Rat
[not found] ` <99Apr2.124830est.13869-2@gateway.inters! ys.com>
1999-04-03 10:04 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-04-03 13:37 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-04-17 5:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-02 13:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-31 9:59 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-30 18:31 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-31 0:31 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 1:19 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-30 9:55 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-30 15:20 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-30 15:34 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 0:12 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 13:13 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 15:15 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 15:32 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 15:47 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-03-31 16:19 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 20:36 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-04-01 2:15 ` Russ Allbery
1999-04-01 8:59 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-31 16:24 ` Dmitry Yaitskov
1999-03-29 16:48 ` Shane Holder
1999-04-02 13:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-09 20:11 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-09 20:47 ` bad (i.e. serious) mail problems (POSSIBLE culprit found) Shane Holder
1999-03-15 15:31 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-28 15:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-09 21:54 ` bad (i.e. serious) mail problems Harry Putnam
1999-03-12 22:48 ` Shane Holder
1999-03-12 23:19 ` Kai.Grossjohann
1999-03-13 0:28 ` Shane Holder
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