On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:25:08PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > Doesent matter if the sender munges from to >from, not all senders > do, and from isn't neccessarily the first message header. (Getting > message headers mixed up between messages is bad). In any case your > sender didn't munge the from below either, so it would still come up > wrong. Two 'kludges' do not make a right.
Wrong and wrong. It is the mail delivery agent (loosely, the receiver), not the sender, that does the munging. And on any properly configured MDA, it ALWAYS does it. And it didn't mung in my example because I purposely put a space before the From. The real delimiter doesn't use a space. And the From delimiter in question isn't really a header, since it is not part of the email originating at the sender. > I don't concern myself with backwards compatibility. I concern myself > with quality. Writing a kludgey program in response to someone else's > kludged up format is not a really good idea. If you REALLY don't concern yourself with backwards compatibility, you are going to seriously limit the jobs that are available to you. But my guess is that this statement is hyperbole again, whether you realize it or not. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
