who was that last message to again?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Brian Dessent on 4/26/2006 11:08 PM:

Whoa.  This mail exposed a bug in Thunderbird.  The To: line in my message
display didn't wrap, and didn't offer a horizontal scroll bar, so all I
could see without viewing full source was

To: "me too. Was: Wow - for once, I sent a mail with a To: having more
characters than,my ISP's lame Message-id: header (which I have been told
has more,than enough b

Then, according to 'view source', all you sent was

To:
 "me too. Was: Wow - for once, I sent a mail with a To: having more characters
 than,my ISP's lame Message-id: header (which I have been told has more,than
 enough bits in it to uniquely identify the age of every atom in the,universe
 in nanoseconds, let a, cygwin-talk AT cygwin DOT com


(Well, not quite - it used @ and . instead of AT and DOT).  Notice there
was no closing quote!  How'd it even get delivered to me without a valid
email address?  Yet according to the archive,
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-talk/2006-q2/msg00151.html, you sent

To: "me too. Was: Wow - for once, I sent a mail with a To: having more
characters than,my ISP's lame Message-id: header (which I have been told
has more,than enough bits in it to uniquely identify the age of every atom
in the,universe in nanoseconds, let alone each post). What is it with
people,who abuse email headers rather than using a message body (oh wait,I
just did it myself - may a hippo fall on me for my
inconsiderate,behavior)." <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>


Now I'm curious as to which MTA between cygwin and me is _truncating_ mail
headers?  And which MUA/MTA between you and cygwin is adding all those
random commas?  I'm outraged!  I should drop a hippo on the culprit(s)!


All this experimentation with SMTP has been fun; it reminds me of the
class I took in college where our semester project was to implement an RFC
in Java, and I chose RFC822.  However, I don't think I could recommend my
particular implementation for use in the wild, since I got the worst grade
of my college career in that course.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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