Rob MacGregor <rob_macgregor(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>:
The general case is nastier than you know. I wish *I* didn't know.
Even with those cases, I can see some value in Michael's suggestion that
corrupt/mangled emails be passed, as an attachment, to the postmaster (or
possibly to a "corrupt email" address, that way sites that only see this in
spam can black hole it). Any chance of having such a feature added?
If nothing else, it might stop the regular flood of emails to the list
about the problem :-)
Well, I cleaned up some stuff in 6.2.2 that was contributing to the problem.
Mail with bad headers is no longer retained on the server; instead. we try
to deduce a location for the header/body split.
Let's see what corner cases are still causing problems before we try
anything more elaborate.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>