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Subject: Re: plain headers in spam
From: Geoff Gibbs (ggibbshgmp.mrc.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 10:15:15 CDT

Rick Troxel wrote:

> ggibbs>Mime-Version: 1.0
> ggibbs>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> ggibbs>plain;
> ggibbs> charset="iso-8859-1"
> ggibbs>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT
> [...]
> ggibbs>If I send a copy of this message, then Postfix seems to
> ggibbs>think that the headers have finished with the
> ggibbs>Content-Type:.
>
> As it should, since the next line does not conform to header field
> syntax, having a semicolon instead of a colon.

Yes, I agree with you that Postfix is behaving correctly. I am
having difficulty trying to reproduce the problem. I am unable to
construct and send a message which produces the headers I describe.
I have tried taking the message from /var/mail/ and feeding it
in via a telnet connection to the smtp port, and the message
gets transmogrified. It is clear that Postfix does not accept this
as a header, so what do I have to feed in to get this bogosity
in my mail file? Does anyone else see any of this rubbish or
does dul.maps.vix.com block it all?

Geoff

UK-Human Genome Mapping Project-Resource Centre,
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