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Re: Is ASCII 0 valid in a message body?
Matti Aarnio writes:
> > This line is from an "inbox" mail file (wherever "mailbox" delivers mail)
> >
> > fax: 55 5 5555555From coombs.anu.edu.au!owner-pacific-islands-l Sun Jul 23...
> > ^^
> > Note how the message from coombs.anu.edu.au starts on the same line as the
> > end of the previous message. I'm guessing a NUL character (ASCII 0) was
> > at the end of the previous message, which in UNIX means end of input/file/etc.
> > This often happens with mail coming from auckland.ac.nz and sent with Pegasus
> > Mail/Mac. It causes most mail user agents (Pine, MM) to misparse the mail file
> > and display two messages as one, or sometimes skip all messages after that
> > altogether.
>
> You don't say which version of ZMailer you are running ?
I'm running the Toronto version 2.2 (Rayan's) on a Sun SPARCstation 10
running SunOS 4.1.3_U1. I will ask the Auckland folks to send me
some test messages to a machine running only the smtpserver process only and
look in the /var/spool/postoffice/router files to confirm what kind of
characters are in those files. Thanks for the other info as well.
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