On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:13:35 -0500, "Rich Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> This is the strangest one that I have seen...
> One of our clients cannot download mail from only one of her friends.
> Headers
> indicate that her friend's machine puts out the following as the source
> received by her
> ISP:
> "from unknown (HELO Dude) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])".
> The message gets to our server and has been verified to be clean of Viri.
> Outlook express, however, cannot download the message. There are no
> strange
> characters like "carrige returns without line feeds". As far as I can tell,
> the only
> unusual thing is that her friend's machine is putting out this unusual
> version of source
> IP. I think that it is allowed by RFC's, but it is unusual in other e-mail
> that is on our
> server.
the : is missing from after the from. outlook is known for not liking
invalid messages. the BNF from rfc822 for header fields says
field = field-name ":" [ field-body ] CRLF
it should be
"from: unknown (HELO Dude) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])"
is there an x-mailer tag in the header? if so, tell them to report a
bug.
klint.
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: Klint Gore : "Non rhyming :
: EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : slang - the :
: Snail : A.B.R.I. : possibilities :
: Mail University of New England : are useless" :
: Armidale NSW 2351 Australia : L.J.J. :
: Fax : +61 2 6772 5376 : :
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