[Gllug] Blank lines in email headers

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:07:13PM +0000, John Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:51:31PM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    I am beginning to see a few emails which appear to have almost two
> > headers with one or two blank lines between them. The latest one appears to
> > be from an ADSL customer of virgin.net and I can either show the complete
> > double header, or two blank lines and the second section of header as part
> > of the email body. My email reader gets confused because the sender,
> > subject, time, and date are all below the two blank lines. Is anyone else
> > seeing this sort of thing?
> 
> I have seen Novell GroupWise 6.5 insert a line containing just a
> single tab character into the headers just above the "X-Mailer:"
> line when it replied to email containing HTML. It messed up on
> most email clients, but relaying via Amavis fixed it.

This behaviour is perverse, but it's within spec, and it's the MUAs
which are wrong if they cannot handle it.

See RFC 2822, section 2.2.3.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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