From: Christopher K Davis <ckd@ckdhr.com>
Subject: Re: bad (i.e. serious) mail problems
Date: 31 Mar 1999 11:21:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <w4aewtfx4w.fsf@kline-station.ckdhr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:11:31 -0500"
Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> That a *MESSGE* starts with "From " *IS* sufficient indication that the
> spoolis in mbox format. The first line retrieved by the POP RETR command
> will be either a message delimiter or an RFC 822 header. It cannot be
> anything else. If it is an MMDF delimiter, it is an MMDF spool. If it is
> a Babyl delimiter, it is a Babyl spool. If it is an RFC 822 header, the
> POP server is broken.
Au contraire.
RFC1939:
11. Message Format
All messages transmitted during a POP3 session are assumed to conform
to the standard for the format of Internet text messages [RFC822].
Note that RFC 822 does *not* include delimeters, whether they be Unix
mbox format, MMDF, Babyl, or CrUnChYbItSoFsTuDlYcApS. So, if any POP
servers are "broken" according to the spec, the ones that are leaving
the delimeters *in* are!
Note that SMTP and POP use dot-stuffing to create protocol-level
delimeters. Note that maildir format (and, for that matter, nnml ;-)
delimit messages by using the filesystem. "From ", "From " with a
Content-Length header, ^A^A^A^A, or Babyl delimeters are not the only
possibilities. Depending on them to be there is probably unwise.
--
Christopher Davis * <ckd-sig@ckdhr.com> * <URL:http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/>
Put location information in your DNS! <URL:http://www.ckdhr.com/dns-loc/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-31 16:21 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
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 [this message]
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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