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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Dmitry Sergienko
from: Michiel Broek
date: 2003-07-29 20:14:38
subject: Re: Tearline and Origin

Hi Dmitry,

Dmitry Sergienko wrote to Bo Simonsen:
DS>             Hi, Bo!
DS> 
DS> Воскресенье Июль 27 2003, at 15:23 Bo Simonsen wrote to Dmitry Sergienko:
DS>  BS>>> Yes.. but if the mail reader fails?
DS>  BS>
DS>  DS>> In this case you can use perl hooks.
DS>  BS>
DS>  BS> Why won't you built 3 lines of code into the source? Like andrew 
said
DS>  BS> it's very important that a message have control information, nearly
DS>  BS> like the AREA klugde.
DS> 
DS> It's not 3 lines. You must detect correct position where to insert 
DS> tearline and origin.
DS> Also, troubles of someone's reader should not be troubles of hpt. It's 
DS> better to fix such mailreader than make tosser more complex.

Then log the situation and refuse to export the message so that the user
knows he owns a bad mailreader. Better let not these messages go out because
they might not reach all nodes and are useless anyway.

That IS a responsibility for the tosser, make sure the messages are allright
before forwarding. Incomplete messages >/dev/null







    Greetings, Michiel Broek

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