On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:35:00 -0500
Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Giovanni Panozzo writes:
> 
> > and that solved most, but not all, of my problems:
> > 
> > a) Every HTML message sent ftom Outlook Express 5.5 Italian has
> >     an invalid 8bit section at the beginning.
> 
> File a bug report with Microsoft.  As you've noted, normally illegal 8-bit 
> content gets rejected.  Now, it is acceptable, but an IMAP client is 
> explicitly notified that the 8bit content uses an unknown character set.

Be more realistic Sam. Despite M$ has already corrected the bug in OE6.0,
there are too many Italian OE5.5 around. We cannot force hundreds of
unknown people with low IT knowledge to change its client: the customer
will simply complain, complain, and
complain again with our (small) helpdesk, and then change ISP.
And this mean MONEY LOSS and TIME LOSS and UNSATISFIED CUSTOMER.

The matter is simple in my point of view: Courier must accept malformed MIME
messages or I'll change MTA. Changing MTA is much simpler and cheaper
than changing hundred of OE5.5 around !

> 
> > b) Some MIME body boundaries in OE5.5 italian for Macintosh
> >     are invalid. (maybe it's a CR-without-LF matter ???)
> > 
> > [if you need, I'll send you the message text of the offending mail]
> > 
> > 
> > Now, I have only some untested "syntax errors" to solve, but
> > I have no data now. Looking into my logs, I see 20-30 correctly
> > signaled "syntax error" per day, but some customer complained
> > about it. I think the lack of "<>" around the RCPT TO: is the cause,
> > as stated in the FAQs.
> 
> Correct.  RFC 821 requires <> around the address.

But  RFC1958, paragraph 3.9, requires that Courier accepts it !


Giovanni


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