Tim Hosking wrote: >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? > > Have you guys even LOOKED at the new version? You have EXACTLY that option, based off the bofh file.
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