Re: bug in testing of message id's

Patrik Rådman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.sn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris Niekel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:58:40PM +0300, Patrik R?dman wrote:
> 
> Without applying the patch, or reading it in context, this keeps the
> order of the '-' and '.' the same, so [email protected] would fail? I looked

Domain names cannot begin or end with a '-'.

> at the NNTP-rfc and they're very, very liberal in the message id's.
> Okay, they just point at other RFC's, but almost anything seems to be
> allright. 
> 
> I haven't looked at how what the id's are used for in the code, but
> wouldn't a <anything>@<anything> be enough of a test on incoming
> messages? The whole function seems overly strict, with a special test
> for @[num.num.num.num].. If the message-id arrives, a lot of other
> newsservers have already considered the message-id to be acceptable.

Not if the message came through snmail... Maybe the Message-ID check is
overly strict, but I'd prefer not to mess with it too much...
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." :)

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