[Mimedefang] duplicate subject headers {Scanned by vsl mailsafe}

[Dave O'Neill]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 03:05:43PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote:
> An RFC 2822 validator is (IMO) pointless.  The mail RFCs, especially
> anything related to MIME, are so badly specified and have so many
> unspecified edge-cases that rejecting a so-called "invalid" message
> for not conforming to the RFC would render you unable to communicate
> with a significant fraction of the Internet.

As seen at YAPC::NA::2008, "Email Hates the Living":

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7054401183589794595

It's a good overview of how broken the RFCs are, with an extra helping
of zombie humour on top.  Worth a look if you have an hour to spare,
though some of the slides are a bit blurry.

Cheers,
Dave
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