Fu Bar <fubar(_at_)yoda(_dot_)fdt(_dot_)net> wrote:
This message comes from pop_dropcopy.c, but I'm not quite sure what
causes it. The headers in his mail spool on several messages were pretty
strange:
From oyster::mrgate::"a1::lezotte, philip a."@oyster.monsanto.com Wed
Oct 18 14:21:51 1995
Return-Path: oyster::mrgate::"a1::lezotte, philip a."@oyster.monsanto.com
I made a backup copy of the mail file, and then edited all the "From "
and "From: " lines, and then popper was able to handle the file.
Manually fixing people's mail isn't much of a solution though.
Pine had no trouble reading messages like this, so I decided to try Pine's
in.pop3d, and it worked as well. We had some problem many weeks ago with
Is this header "bad" or does it simply expose a bug in popper? Could an
It exposes a bug in popper, the header is valid.
/etc/procmailrc using formail perhaps be used to "clean up" headers on
incoming messages?
Of course. Something like that can be kludged in.
:0
* ^^From [^ ]+ [^ ].* \/[A-Z][a-z][a-z] [A-Z][a-z][a-z] [0-9]+ [0-9]+:.*$
| formail -I "From STRANGE_ADDRESS $MATCH"
But the real solution is fixing the popper.
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Sincerely,
srb(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl
Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not re-curse!