On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 01:10:49PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 09:29:47AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > >However, I would not award +1 to the MUAs that, we are told, > >truncate the message, or even just the line, at the first > >NUL byte. That could yield a message with a very different sense > >from what the sender wrote. > > And that is what happens when you do something that is out of spec > for the protocol--the recipient's behavior is undefined and possibly > suboptimal. (A NUL is specifically disallowed per RFC 2822.)
But never forget the Postel Principle. In RFC land, nasal daemons are frowned upon ;-) Cheers -- t
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