On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > > So the questions are: > > A) Who truly is to blame here? SBC's server for one, but which other > > program is viloating RFCs? > > SBC is generating a garbage DSN. Outlook is broken because it chokes on it, > and can't recover. > > > > > B) What can we do about it? Obviously this kind of thing is going to > > continue to happen. It has happened a number of times in the past. > > Outlook, although garbage, is the most popular email client. SBC is not > > going away any time soon. Can we either reject these bad messages at an > > SMTP level or fix them? > > ... and then people who just absolutely have a desire to receive broken mail > from these servers, but use a mail client that can handle them, will > complain about bouncing them. >
So what about fixing the message up, or putting them in a wrapper like courier does with bsd mime messages? Does courier allready parse the message into headers and body at some point? We know it is not courier's fault, but I do not know a single admin that wants to be called every time SBC bounces an email just to delete a message from a user's Maildir. My two year campaign to lure all my clients away from Outlook has had a 0% success rate. Customers using broken Outlook as a client is something admins are forced to live with. Thanks, -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
