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- From: andys@internet.sbi.com (Andy Sherman)
- Subject: Re: MH and Solaris 2.x sendmail
- Message-ID: <9301112007.AA06230@flatline.sbi.com>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:54:08 EST."
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 06:51:49 GMT
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- >>>>> On Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:54:08 -0500, Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> said:
-
- moore> FYI, MIME does *NOT* use content-length, or anything like it. The
- moore> content-length header is completely nonstandard.
-
- Actually Content-Length may be X.400, which is as much a standard as
- the RFC's. I seem to recall that AT&T Mail has been using
- Content-Length since they started, and they are X.400.
-
- moore> The ">From" hack is ugly, no doubt about it. However, using a
- moore> header field to delimit messages within a mailbox strikes me as
- moore> even worse, particularly when it breaks interoperability with
- moore> other systems using NFS as a mail access protocol.
-
- Using a header field to tell you when the message ends seems to be the
- only sane thing to do in a multi-part multimedia world.
- Interoperability with NFS mounted maildrops could be a problem, but
- (thankfully) it's not ours.
-
-
- moore> However, it seems like MH wants to support the local mailbox
- moore> format, whatever that is...so it might do well for a future
- moore> version of MH to be able to grok Content-length headers on
- moore> local mailboxes only on Solaris systems.
-
- I've now done that hack. I'll try to figure out to whom I should pass
- it back.
-
- moore> But I'd just as soon they be REMOVED from all outgoing mail.
- moore> The presence of Content-length headers in Internet email is
- moore> just going to add to the general confusion about what is
- moore> standard and what isn't.
-
- That battle was lost long ago. Lots of X.400->Internet gateways leave
- their non-822 headers in the messages. Sendmail is real happy about
- munging and rewriting headers, but I don't know how well it likes to
- remove them. Just ignore them. :^|.
-
- Andy
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