|Tue 1998-09-29 Liviu Daia <daia(_at_)stoilow(_dot_)imar(_dot_)ro> list.procmail
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| MIME-compliant don't have much use for it. Moreover, it should only
| be added by the final MTA, or by the recipient's MUA. The reason
| is some gateways out there love to get messy, and do things like
| removing trailing blanks and compressing or expanding tabs. So the
| may confuse the MIME-_aware_ MUAs that (naively :-)) use it as a hint
| for parsing mbox mailboxes into messages.
After I saw Jamie Zawinsky's Content-Lenth header discussion in 1996-05-17
comp.mail.headers (included in pm-tips.txt), I agreed with him that it was
utterly useless and too error prone. E.g. SUN's mailtool uses C-L and it
breaks if C-L is wrong.
jari