Re: bug in testing of message id's

Patrik Rådman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris Niekel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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...

Looking at the RFCs, it seems that sn implements 822 fairly exactly, but
that one has of course been replaced by 2822, which has a looser
definition of Message-ID. So the Message-ID check could probably be
loosened quite a bit.

But before that, I'd like to get a 0.3.7 out the door... :)

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