Good summary, Keith.
I'm sorry this has ballooned into such a big deal.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a completely correct solution. :(
But I vote for new('','') as least bad. :)
I've asked the author of the debian patch if it's likely to go into stock
MailTools any time soon.
BTW Matt, you're not accepting email from softhome.net. There's a lot
of forgeries going about now, but could you accept from 66.54.152.0/26
or use a designated senders protocol?
Which begs the question, has anybody written a plugin for
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fecyk-dsprotocol-04.txt or any of
the other designated sender protocols?
Brian