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Re: badheader question
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Geert Altena wrote:
> I got this mail in the postman-dir that apparently had a invalid
> header syntax according to Zmailer.:
I run my workstation router with '-W' option (non-default), which
produces these Illegal-Object: reports.
Illegal-Object: Syntax error in From: address found on mea.tmt.tele.fi:
From: Osman%ProFTPd<osman@Cable.EU.org>
^-missing end of mailbox
Hmm... '%' isn't listed as 'special' in RFC 822, but ZMailer treats it
as one...
/Matti Aarnio
> external
> rcvdfrom starbase.tos.net ([209.212.188.150]:9736 "EHLO starbase.tos.net")
> with ESMTP
> identinfo NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]
> from <proftpd-request@proftpd.net>
> todsn ORCPT=rfc822;Geert@uttnarag.tn.utwente.nl
> to <Geert@uttnarag.tn.utwente.nl>
> env-end
> Received: (from listserv@localhost)
> by starbase.tos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA07513;
> Sat, 25 Sep 1999 10:47:18 -0500
> Resent-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 10:47:18 -0500
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:46:57 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Osman%ProFTPd <osman@Cable.EU.org>
> To: radek.stachowiak@alter.pl
> cc: Mailing-List ProFTPd <proftpd@proftpd.net>
> Subject: Re: [ProFTPD] pre7
> In-Reply-To: <19990925113908.D6407@blue.alter.pl>
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909251743181.27553-100000@fw.Cable.EU.org>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> Resent-Message-ID: <u7VlB.A.G1B.E6O73@starbase.tos.net>
> Resent-From: proftpd@tos.net
> Reply-To: proftpd@tos.net
> X-Mailing-List: <proftpd@proftpd.net> archive/latest/786
> X-Loop: proftpd@proftpd.net
> Precedence: list
> Resent-Sender: proftpd-request@tos.net
>
> [body snipped]
>
> I've looked through rfc822 but couldn't find what could be wrong with
> the message, message-ID's look okay, nothing else that looks funky...
> Apart perhaps from the "%" percent-sign in the From: header. Is this
> the offending header?
>
> \G.
> --
> Geert Altena | Geert@uttnarag.tn.utwente.nl | Coffee, black, no sugar
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/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
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