On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 06:51, Vic Metcalfe wrote: > I have a client who has had a couple of email addresses stop working, and > outlook complaining that the connection had been dropped by the server. I > did some network sniffing and discovered that Outlook was in fact closing > the connection (orderly disconnect). I looked at the actual message, and > the only thing odd that I noticed was that there was no blank line after the > header. The message contained a subject line with no body, but there was no > blank. > > I checked out RFC 822 to see if the separator was required, but it seems > ambiguous to me: > > A message consists of header fields and, optionally, a body. > The body is simply a sequence of lines containing ASCII charac- > ters. It is separated from the headers by a null line (i.e., a > line with nothing preceding the CRLF). > > My feeling is that the sending application (appears to be Lotus Notes) is to > blame for not including blanks and the receiving application is to blame for > requiring them. However, I can't control either of those factors. > > Does anyone know of a patch or something that would force messages stored in > the Maildir or MBox formats to always contain this blank line? I'm using > Maildir BTW and haven't tested with MBox. I think this is the right place > to correct the problem since we can't correct the MUA's and this would work > with any pop/imap server. >
I don't really see how this question is related to qmailadmin. Sounds like an OE bug (whoa, OE bug? NO WAY) and should probably be reported to microsoft. Patching an MTA for something like this is a very poor idea, as OE should be the one that is fixed. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kitchen @ #qmail on EFNet - Join the party! ..................... Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com 866.528.3530 toll free 847.492.0470 int'l 847.492.0632 fax GNUPG key ID: 93BDD6CE
