On Dec 9, 11:22, Frank McConnell wrote:
> Paul Williams <paul_at_frixxon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Pete Turnbull wrote:
> >
> > [Quoting headers from one of Tony's emails]
> >
> >> Content-Type: text
> >> Moreover, they have no attachments, no hooks for attachments, and
> >> nothing other than correct ASCII headers and plain ASCII text (as,
> >> indeed, the headers indicate).
> >
> > This header is invalid according to RFC 2045, because it should
> > contain a type and subtype (in this case, it should be text/plain).
>
> Please read section 4 of RFC 2045, then try to find the
> "MIME-Version:" header in Tony's messages, then you may understand
> that Tony's mailer isn't sending MIME messages. There is some
> language in that section that permits software to interpret non-MIME
> messages "according to local conventions", but if it tries to treat
> non-MIME messages according to the MIME standards and loses, then I'm
> free to consider it broken, and I do!
So do I -- "be generous in what you accept and strict in what you
create" or similar words. On the other hand, RFC1049 doesn't allow the
"Content-type:" that Tony's mail contains, nor does RFC822, and as you
imply, Tony's mail isn't MIME-compliant -- so it's broken too.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Tue Dec 09 2003 - 16:37:40 GMT