Re: [apps-discuss] Malformed mail (was Re: Review of: draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-03)

Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> Mon, 08 July 2013 07:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Malformed mail (was Re: Review of: draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-03)
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> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> wrote:

> > In regards to malformed message, I just ran into one containing, among
> > other
> > things, the following fields:
> >
> > Received: from 1.2.3.4 @ host user@host
> > Received: from 4.5.6. user@host
> > Return-Path: user@host "phrase"
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 9-bit
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > MIME Ver: 1.40
> >
> > (I have of course anonymized things.)
> >
> > Of course I've seen plenty of broken messages, but this is taking things
> > to a whole new level.
> >
> >
> >
> Should any or all of these be mentioned in the draft, or is this just
> fodder for general head-shaking?  :-)

I sincerely hope it's the latter.

				Ned