Re: Eudora splits header lines
Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Mon, 3 Mar 1997 02:48:20 -0500
On Mar 2, 23:54, Edward Reid wrote:
} Subject: Re: Eudora splits header lines
} Al Gilman writes:
} > What does RFC 822 say? Whitespace at start of line in header
} > indicates continuation from line above?
} RFC1036 vaguely disallows continuation before header content,
} and son of RFC1036 (not yet approved afaik) explicitly disallows
} it. In any case, breaking the newsgroups line, even before the
} first newsgroup name, will certainly break a lot of software.
} The faq server on rtfm probably won't accept it.
It's worthy of note that it _also_ breaks certain relatively recent
incarnations of sendmail. In violation of RFC822 I believe, but,
that's what it does.
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