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:-) RFC822 mail is fairly simple at its heart - X.400 was a lot more detailed

• insertnickname 9y ago
  If you're a new implementor, you'll be shocked at how badly 822 was designed. Extracting even the simplest information from a message---the author's address, for example, or the sending date---is excruciatingly painful. And I see no sign that we'll ever be rid of the horrors of 822 syntax; how can we convince users to convert their old mailboxes to a sensible new format? https://cr.yp.to/immhf.html https://cr.yp.to/immhf.html
  • walshemj 9y ago
    Well as some one who used to work on the UK's x.400 ADMD I would agree. How ever TCP/IP protocols won the standards war which on balance is better - other wise you'd have what your PTT wanted to have sub :-)
• RantyDave 9y ago
  "sendmail gets rather confused by bytes between 128 and 159; it uses them for internal macro handling." https://cr.yp.to/immhf/header.html https://cr.yp.to/immhf/header.html That's got to be a sitter of a security hole for something, right?
  • teddyh 9y ago
    According to the Wayback machine, that page is at least from the year 2000 or older, and the two example mails he gives are both from 1996. I would assume that any bug in sendmail which would have existed back then will be fixed by now.