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[Fwd: Netscape mail client error]
From: BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM (Blue Boar)
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 22:15:16 -0800
dolemite () wuli nu wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:15:40 -0800 Blue Boar <BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM> wrote: Email records are often important but I would hope most self-respecting admins would bother to log such things on the smtp server rather than just looking at the dates on the msg. Furthermore I believe there is probably more information on the header of the email which would probably show some non quasi-dates.Using the mail reader that comes with Communicator 4.7 I was noticing that messages place themselves in order of date in my inbox. The date, of course, is dictated by the sender. After some playing around, I came up with this set of SMTP commands: EHLO thievco.com MAIL FROM:<BlueBoar () thievco com> RCPT TO:<blueboar () thievco com> DATA Date: Fri, 40 Nov 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 30:70:70 -9900 From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com> To: blueboar () thievco com Subject: testsub testbody . QUIT That would cause my mail program trouble. It reads the mail, places it as the oldest e-mail (thinks it's 12/31/69) and then gives a message: "Error saving mail" So far, nothing has crashed, however it refused to delete them from the POP server. I had to manually delete them by telnetting to port 110 and doing DELE commands. Clearly, one can expect problems with e-mail clients and news readers trying to interpret intentionally bogus date fields. I present this to the list to see what other interesting problems you guys can discover. I'm tempted to post one to the list, but I don't think I could get everyone (over 3000, now) to consent. :) BBg0ate0ats
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