Re: [fetchmail-devel] fetchmail 6.3.15-beta1 beta release with "bad-header pass" feature

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 25.02.2010 07:02, schrieb grarpamp:
>>>> fetchmail.  This beta1 has the long-desired feature to ignore bad
>>>> headers in messages and pass them on.
> 
> Hi group.
> What are 'bad headers'?

Those which (1) are not continuations of the previous line, i. e. do not start
with linear white space, and (2) which do not follow the usual header name plus
colon (:) syntax.

Fetchmail traditionally refused to deliver such messages, now you get the option
to attempt delivery. Some distributors have already been patching fetchmail to
do that. Such patches will be obsolete then (although I expect those
distributors will patch the default to accept such messages).

> Certainly would not all inbound headers be passed through fetchmail
> to disk or pipe, etc?

Yes of course they would, with additional Received: headers to trace that
fetchmail was in the path (unless you set it to invisible mode, which I discourage).

HTH

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Matthias Andree