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Re: Lost Instructions
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:34:32 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> The e-mail gateway handles References (as well as In-Reply-To) headers both
> directions, so it must be a broken emailer. There are couple people using
> a broken version of Eudora which always seems to chop the last message ID and
> cause their replies to go as a sibling rather than a child of the article to
> which they're replying. I wish there were a good way to detect broken or
> missing References and reject such messages. :-/
Hmm. Looking for the presence of something like
-----Original Message-----
(added by some many odd mailers) might get part of the way there in detecting
a reply, but then that would also get false positives where someone was
forwarding something external.
But I wonder about simply checking the Subject header for
m/^[Rr][Ee}:\s*/
If the Subject header matches that regex and the References header is empty,
it should be an excellent bet that the client software which produced the
message is badly broken.
--Todd
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| (...) but what do you do if it is broken? reject it? that's not so friendly - basicly you're saying that you're not allowing people to use eudora with the mail interface... :/ dunno what you can do though - no really good way of know what the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) The e-mail gateway handles References (as well as In-Reply-To) headers both directions, so it must be a broken emailer. There are couple people using a broken version of Eudora which always seems to chop the last message ID and cause their (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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