[Mimedefang] Interesting bug perhaps?

Kevin A. McGrail KMcGrail at PCCC.com
Wed Jun 1 16:44:38 EDT 2011


On 6/1/2011 4:24 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Hi, Kevin,
>
>> So my question is, is this a "bug" in MD not to fix the From: header
>> in the way that sendmail does?
> I don't believe so.  MD is designed to give you what it sees.  It mostly
> doesn't attempt to fix up broken headers, and I think it would be a bad
> idea to code that into MIMEDefang.  If you want that, you can always
> code your own Perl functions to canonicalize headers, I guess.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
That was my thought as well but it took a long time to figure out what 
was going on so bringing it to your attention seemed like a good thing.

Regards,
KAM



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