retitle 531043 b.d.o's MTA 550's mail with RFC non-compliant headers tag 531043 - moreinfo unreproducible tag 531043 wontfix thanks
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Darren Salt wrote: > Unreproducible? I'm reasonably sure that enough information is > present here to make it reproducible, at least when talking raw SMTP > to rietz. Unreproducible in the sense that debbugs isn't sending you wrongly encoded headers, which is what I understood you to be asking about from your original message. Since you're just asking about why it refuses to accept broken headers. > I'm aware that it's unnecessary. That doesn't automatically make it > wrong or buggy but, in turn, it doesn't mean that it shouldn't be > fixed. It does make it buggy, and it's certainly buggy to turn a Reply-To: which doesn't have a realname into a Reply-To: which does. > But "be liberal in what you accept" is relevant here, given that the > MUA in question is being, shall we say, a little less strict than it > should be in what it sends. We don't accept mail that clearly fails to comply with the appropriate RFCs for various reasons, the first of which is spam. [Others being that it's often not possible to do something sensible with the message, so it's much more efficient to just 550 perm fail the message.] Don Armstrong -- He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him -- as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life. -- Paul Auster _City of Glass_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
