You got it!
I had been focusing on IMail-related headers, but the "Date:" line is the culprit.
The original SMTP RFCs state that GMT is perfectly legitimate, but the problem is that
it is in quotes, which is illegal. Both the problem E-mails were sent by AspMail, so
I would guess that the programmer of AspMail (or the ASP programmer using AspMail)
doesn't know BNF too good (the RFC shows "GMT", but that means GMT without the quotes).
The culprit here is the program sending the mail. Of course, I won't say that the
real culprit is Microsoft for not handling a common error situation well, since I
don't want to start another debate! :)
-Scott
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From: "Eric Shanbrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:50:14 -0400
there was a time that MSO and OE didn't understand anything as a time offset
except EST/EDT, CST/CDT, MST/MDT, and PST/PDT where others had to have been
a numerical designation. This seems consistent with the 3 messages shown
here. the 2 that blow up have "GMT" in the Date line whereas the one that
works has -0500. Looks like a client issue to me here.
Eric S
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Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Header problem
> > We think it could possibly be related to a time stamping issue
> > from mail servers in different time zones as well.
>
> On one hand, that would make sense, since it is one of the few headers
that IMail is involved with (it adds a "Received: " header, the one at the
top of the headers). But, I can't imagine what IMail could do to that
header (which appeared to be fine, in the samples that OE choked on) that
would cause OE to choke.
>
> The funny thing is that IMail shouldn't even be looking at the other
Received: headers, as far as I know. And, the format used to display the
time/date stamp in the "Received: " line varies quite a bit (apparently, the
standard format had to be changed since it wasn't Y2K compliant), and
probably at least 25% of all mail servers have times that aren't right (5-10
minutes off, incorrect time zones, etc.).
> -Scott
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