procmail
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Bad message IDs (Re: Implication of bad message id's (please)?)

1997-12-17 16:21:17
Timothy J Luoma <luomat+procmail(_at_)luomat(_dot_)peak(_dot_)org> writes:
I also have a question.  My mailreader under NeXTStep complains about the  
following Message-ID:

<c=US%a=_%p=?Home_Network%l=HOME-HQ-971217052913Z-318(_at_)home-hq(_dot_)svr(_dot_)home(_dot_)net>

It says:

Missing terminating '?' in MIME 8-bit header:  
<c=US%a=_%p=?Home_Network%l=HOME-HQ-971217002445Z-283(_at_)home-hq(_dot_)svr(_dot_)home(_dot_)net>

Who is wrong, my mailreader or their Message-ID ?

Your mailreader.  RFC2047 specifies the encoding on non-ascii data in
headers, and according to it, within a structured header (which the
Message-Id: header is) the "=?" textual pattern only specifies the
start of an encoded word within a comment.  Outside of such a comment
it has no special meaning.

Philip Guenther

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>