Is this a mimetools/rfc822 bug?

Barry A. Warsaw barry at digicool.com
Mon Jun 25 16:37:51 EDT 2001


>>>>> "SK" == Sheila King <sheila at spamcop.net> writes:

    SK> So far as I know, leading newline characters are not allowed
    SK> in the header. A newline character indicates the end of the
    SK> headers.

Correct, and rfc822 is fairly strict about what it accepts.  Leading
empty lines in the text will toggle it over from "reading-headers"
mode to "reading-body" mode.  It's even worse if you have no headers,
but your first body line has a colon in it!

Moral: massage and normalize your text before feeding it to rfc822.

-Barry




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