You're not going to believe this!

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Oct 12 16:44:21 UTC 1999


Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com> writes:

> Remember the bug I reported a couple of days ago with innmail putting
> whitespace before the "To:" and "Subject:" headers?  Well, a little
> testing with raw sendmail proved that the problem is that innmail puts a
> TAB after the colon, instead of a space.  Changing it to a space fixed
> the problem.  I believe that RFC822 allows any whitespace, and it's only
> the news RFCs that are more restrictive (only allowing a single space),
> in which case this appears to be a Sun bug.

Thanks for tracking this down; I'll commit your fix to both CURRENT and
STABLE.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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