Change of two fields in overview.fmt

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sun Mar 23 14:15:31 UTC 2008


Julien ÉLIE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to RFC 3977, the LIST OVERVIEW.FMT behaves as follows:  the first 7
> lines MUST (except for the case of letters) be exactly:
>
>        Subject:
>        From:
>        Date:
>        Message-ID:
>        References:
>        :bytes
>        :lines
>
>    For compatibility with existing implementations, the last two lines
>    MAY instead be:
>
>        Bytes:
>        Lines:
>
>
> What should be done for INN 2.5?
>
>   
I would say compatibility... There may be one or two /really correct/ 
clients which check what they are getting, but in general they assume 
default and anything else will produce undesirable behavior (of some 
magnitude).
-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still
  be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark 





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