Hot damn! I think this is really the problem. Although the quotes around
GMT are a default of the ASPMail program, not the programmers discretion.
But it can be overridden. I tried replacing the "GMT" string without the
quotes and it works. One weird thing though is that this didn't happen with
Sendmail. Maybe Sendmail recognizes the error and cleans it up?
A million thanks, guys. This should be easy to fix now.
-Ryan
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Header problem
> 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
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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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