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Re: [ietf-smtp] Is this a valid Message-ID header ?

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 06 March 2020 16:34 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] Is this a valid Message-ID header ?
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2020, John C Klensin wrote:
> In the interest of clarity, what you are referring to as "MIME
> entities" are encoded words as specified in RFC 2231.  Right?

Right.

> And because encoded words are not permitted in Message-IDs or
> the other fields you mention, those fields must conform to the
> specified syntax without decoding.   If they don't, it is pretty
> much up to the receiving system what to do about it. ...

That was my understanding, too.  I'm finding these MIME message-ID's in 
the IETF's IMAP server, so now I'm wondering if they were in the original 
message.  Here's one that showed up today.  I think they're all from 
Microsoft.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/last-call/xTEWTOyy4HOX-wyvFVaOicn2P-I/#

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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