Re: Whose bug is this?

From: Scott Kitterman <ietf-dkim_at_kitterman.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 01:32:18 -0500

On December 8, 2014 12:53:41 AM EST, Daniel Black <daniel.subs_at_internode.on.net> wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
>
>On 07/12/14 02:24, Dmitry E. Mikhailov wrote:
>> On 12/06/2014 06:22 AM, Claus Assmann wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014, Pascal wrote:
>>>
>>>> When sendmail is given a message with a line greater than 1000
>>>> characters
>>>
>>> That's not allowed by the RFCs.
>>>
>>> GiGo.
>>>
>>> "Whose bug is this?": whoever submitted the broken/invalid message.
>>
>> I guess that applies to my previous question too: when the subject
>line
>> is longer than about 1000 bytes (after conversion to UTF8) the
>message
>> isn't signed also.
>>
>> Dmitry Mikhailov
>>
>>
>
>
>In general, an implementation should be conservative in its sending
>behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
>
>— Jon Postel in RFC 760

The world is a different place today. If you want your mail accepted, send standards compliant mail.

Scott K
Received on Mon Dec 08 2014 - 06:34:43 PST