on 5/2/02 1:12 pm, Walter Taucher at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > We are getting mail rejected as well. > > The interesting note here is that in our test with one client using Eudora > 5.1, if the sender removes the automatic signature at the Bottom of the > message, the message goes thru, replace the signature, and the MIME Error > returns. > > And what can our clients that are using products that send Courier > incompatible RFC headers like Ebay or Microsoft folks do?: And They are > able to communicate to everyone else but us, do we really believe they will > change the way they behave just for our sake? A little flexibility is > needed here. > I know there is an Aesop Fable in there somewhere.. >
After the trouble Sam has gone to to appease everyone on this issue, I feel almost reluctant to make another suggestion, but here goes: How about adding another option to add an additional header to flag badly formed messages? For example, Option 1. Bounce the email as it did originally. Option 2. Deliver the message as an attachment. Option 3. Deliver the message as is, but with an additional header inserted. E.g. X-BadMimeHeaders: <additional info such as offset of first bad byte> This would enable people to filter badly formed messages according to their taste (burn it, drop it in the quarantine folder, reformail it or whatever). The reason I suggest this is that I frequently receive mail from a couple of mailing lists which don't comply with rfc2045, only in reality, receiving these messages is benign and my mail client copes just fine. My existing filters would simply deliver these messages where I wanted them. All I would have to do is add a final filter to handle bad MIME messages from unknown sources. This also unloads the burden of how to deal with the crap away from Sam. What do you think? -- Tim Hosking It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy. _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
