[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Michael Unger]

On 2012-03-03 23:05, "JF Mezei" wrote:

> [...]
> 
> Also this has apparently been fixed, but it used to be that if you had a
> line longer tan 255 characters in the RFC header, the SMTP receiver
> woudl split the line in two, causing an invalid RFC header and the POP
> server would then synthetie a new header and use that one as part of the
> message contents (making it impossible to parse attachements)

Mail headers _may_ of course be split ("folded", RFC 822 section 3.1.1)
into several lines -- provided the continuation lines are beginning with
what is called "white space" (a single blank, several blanks, a tab
character).

Michael

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