Chris,
Thanks for the information. I read through the RFC, although I found it a little
challenging to follow (for those of us not used to
thinking in terms of tokens and atoms). I have a couple of quick questions:
First, you mention that the "\(" is an Outlook bug. Do you know if there is a
Microsoft Knowledgebase article on this or other
references?
Second, after reading the RFC, it is not clear to me whether the quote/escape
character (\) is needed inside a quoted string. That
is, in the line
To: "Ben (Mail Guy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
do the parenthesis really need to be preceded by \, since they're already inside a
quoted string?
Third, the most common problem I've seen is a comma inside the quoted string, such as
To: "Bednarz, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Should this be preceded by a backslash? Is there a known Outlook problem with this?
Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Terrebonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Something new on malformed headers
> The "\(" issue is an Outlook bug. It is the responsibility of the IMAP4
> server to escape any element that is used as a token. For example the
> envelope fetch uses paranthesis as a delimiter so any unescaped abtract
> occurance of paranthesis would cause parsing problems in RFC 822/2060
> complient clients.
> It is the responsibility of the IMAP4 client to recognize the escape
> sequence and format the headers accordingly.
> See RFC822 for more info.
> http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc0822.html
>
> Chris
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Original Message
> From: "Scott Perry"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Something new on malformed headers
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:49:06 -0400
>
> >> My first question is:
> >> Is the formatting of the header From:, To:, Cc:, and Subject: lines
> >> set by the sending mail client, or could is it changed at all by the
> >> mail servers? In particular, could my IMail server change those
> >> parts of the mail header?
> >
> >The From:, To:, Cc:, and Subject: headers are all added by the mail
> client. I haven't heard of IMail
> >ever altering those headers.
> >
> >
> >--
> > -Scott
> >
> >Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail.
> http://www.declude.com
> >--
> >
> >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
> >to be removed from this list.
> >
> >An Archive of this list is available at:
> >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
> >
>
> _____________________________________________
> Free email with personality! Over 200 domains!
> http://www.MyOwnEmail.com
>
>
> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
> to be removed from this list.
>
> An Archive of this list is available at:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
>
Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
to be removed from this list.
An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
