> I sent this email to you on the assumption that you work for Microsoft, and
> because I didn't want to post the enclosures to the list. Please let me know
> if that's not the case.
Sorry, I don't work for Microsoft. But with the tcpflow transcripts you sent me off-list I think I understand what is happening. I hope you will forgive my replying to the list when you emailed me personally, but I'm hoping someone on the development team will notice this message and the bug will get written up.
The problem is that Entourage breaks the headers at 80 characters, as you can see from the transcript you sent me:
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:42:50 -0700
Subject: Re: confirm subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Rick Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <tomcat-user-sc.1022192870.ihbckjhbaijpcmbfkohm-rmann=latencyzero.com@jakar
.ta.apache.org>
Notice how the To: header is breaking onto two lines. Apparently Apple’s Mail (and the other mail clients you have tried) do not break the headers:
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:50:14 -0700
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Subject:
From: Rick Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481)
Notice the To: header.
I also believe that some mail servers may be more accepting of headers that break onto two lines, at least when the address is enclosed in carets (which is how Entourage handles it) and that this is why some others on the list have not been able to reproduce the error. Your mail server (Earthlink it appears) is running Exim 3.33 #2, and it looks like Exim doesn’t honor the angle brackets.
-Remo Del Bello
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To attack a man for talking nonsense is like finding your mortal enemy
drowning in a swamp and jumping in after him with a knife.
-- Karl Popper
