On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:23:24PM -0600, Mark J. Roberts wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Travis Bemann wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:00:07PM -0600, Mark J. Roberts wrote:
> > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mark J. Roberts wrote:
> > >
> > > > Eeeeekkk! My evil parser just used the wrong From: header on all Ian's
> > > > messages! Arrrggggghhhhh....
> > >
> > > Actually, that was just coincidence. But did you know that some mail
> > > clients put the Reply-To: header right after the Date: header? Most put it
> > > somewhere after the Subject: header.
> > >
> > > Whoever designed this email thing should be shot. Immediately.
> >
> > Email clients which depend upon header order are inherently evil, and
> > their authors should be immediately sent to the wall (to be shot).
>
> And, O wise one, what say you of email parsers which depend upon a blank
> line to separate header from body?
That is a different story. While header order doesn't matter and is
not specified by any particular RFCs, the line separating the body
from the headers is specified in one or more RFCs.
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Travis Bemann
Sendmail is still screwed up on my box.
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