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Re: MIME boundary strings

"Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> Thu, 22 August 2002 14:08 UTC

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On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 15:26, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Most versions of Eudora also have an interesting bug wherein when forming
> nested multiparts, some percentage of the time the exterior boundary will
> be a prefix of the interior boundary.  I think they've finally fixed this
> in the latest release.

Just curiosity: isn't it a requirement that the boundary be on a line on
its own? Then the brokenness would really be in the MIME parsers that
misbehaved on such things.

cheers
-- vbi


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