Mailheader not conform RFC822

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debco

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Hi,
We receive mail via our pop3-client in text-format because the mailserver is adding an extra line in the mailheader. This mailheader is not compling to RCF822, and our (strict) mailclient cannot handle the message-conversions.
Any suggestions ?

This is the first part of the mail-header:
(As you can see, the first line is not a "tag:" format.)

From [email protected] Sat Aug 07 15:36:08 2004
Return-path: <[email protected]>
Envelope-to: [email protected]
Delivery-date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:36:08 +0200
Received: from [64.4.53.53] (helo=hotmail.com)
by server1.virtualmind.be with esmtp (Exim 4.34)
id 1BtRMl-00053K-3k; Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:36:07 +0200
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Sat, 7 Aug 2004 06:34:28 -0700
Received: from 80.200.248.204 by by19fd.bay19.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP;
Sat, 07 Aug 2004 13:34:28 GMT
X-Originating-IP: [80.200.248.204]
From [email protected] Sat Aug 07 15:36:08 2004
 
What you're looking at is a standard artifact of mbox delivery. Your pop server should strip this line when delivering email; ours does.

For information about the "From " line in mbox format mailboxes (used by DA), look here.

Jeff
 
Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your quick reply.... but now we have a situation...
You wrote "Your pop server should strip this line when delivering email" so I confronted our mail-server owner with this.

They answerd: "There isn't really anything that can be modiifed in vm-pop3d. It's comes as a compiled binary with only 2 or 3 command line options for controlling it."

So, no solution yet...
Please advice,
Thanks
Debco.
 
That's true.

How do you know that's the line that's causing the problem?

Jeff
 
Hi Jeff,

See RCF822: a label ends with ":" and has no spaces (chr(32)) in the name...

The "From" line does not comply with this. (and deviates 2 times from this definition)

I'm 100% sure !

Kind regards,
Debco
 
Did you follow the link in my first response?

If you do, you'll see that the From line is NOT part of the RFC822 definitions. It's a delimeter according to the mbox specification, followed by the RFC822 headers.

Jeff
 
Hi Jeff,

Yes, I followed your link, and yes, I think you found the reason behind the problem: the "from"-line is een mbox separator line.
Like you wrote: this line should be removed by the pop3-server.
We find this line in our mail-client, so the conclusion is that the mail-server does NOT remove this line.
Question remains... how to remove this line on that pop3-server.

Debco
 
And for that question I have no answer :( .

Is there a support group somewhere for vm-pop3d ?

Or perhaps you can ask DA support to help.

Jeff
 
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