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- Subject: Sendmail bug - use of "Text:" and "Message:" headers?
- Message-ID: <Bu4wEK.2Gt@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- From: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 02:03:55 GMT
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- Organization: Dept of Comp Science, Victoria Uni, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
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- In IDA sendmail and other versions, in the file conf.c, there are two headers,
- "text" and "message", included in the structure 'struct hdrinfo HdrInfo[]'.
- I've weeded this down a bit but, e.g.
-
- struct hdrinfo HdrInfo[] =
- {
- ...
- /* message identification and control */
- "message-id", 0,
- "resent-message-id", H_RESENT,
- "message", H_EOH,
- "text", H_EOH,
- ...
- NULL, 0,
- };
-
- This means that a message which is received with either of these headers
- included is munged - see the example below.
-
- In Appendix D of 'Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide' I see the
- following:
-
- The "Message:" and "Text:" fields will terminate the header; these are specified
- in new protocols [NBS80] or used by random dissenters around the network world.
-
- Here's the reference:
-
- [NBS80] National Bureau of Standards, Specification of a Draft Message Format
- Standard. Report No. ICST/CBOS 80-2. October 1980.
-
- Now I see a possibly related but different bibliographic reference to NBS at the
- end of RFC 822:
-
- NBS. "Specification of Message Format for Computer Based Message
- Systems, Recommended Federal Information Processing Standard."
- National Bureau of Standards: Gaithersburg, Maryland
- (October 1981).
-
- but nowhere do I see in RFC822 (or RFC 1123) any indication that these headers
- should be supported or that the above documents should be read in conjunction
- with the RFC. As someone who sees RFC 822 as the "one true faith" (:-),
- I'm very unhappy about being a 'random dissenter'.
-
- I believe that these headers should *NOT* be recognised by 'sendmail' and this
- behaviour is just plain wrong.
- e.g.
-
- If I post a message using MH 'comp' with headers like:
- --
- Text: hello
- To: asjl
- Subject: test
-
- hello
- --
-
- It arrives as:
-
- --
- From Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz Sun Sep 6 13:57:33 1992
- Received: from debretts.comp.vuw.ac.nz by kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz id <AA09298@kauk
- au.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- (5.65cVUW/5.2 for <asjl>) with SMTP; Sun, 6 Sep 1992 13:57:32 +1200
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 13:57:32 +1200
- From: Andy Linton <Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Message-Id: <199209060157.AA09298@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Apparently-To: <asjl@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
- Status: R
-
- text
- To: asjl
- Subject: test
- Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 13:57:32 +1200
- Sender: asjl@comp.vuw.ac.nz
-
- hello
- --
-
- Has anybody got a reference for me that says otherwise?
-