Re: [Fwd: Netscape mail client error]

[tschroed () ACM ORG (Trevor Schroeder)]

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Blue Boar wrote:

> it hits clients.  All that has to be done is to look for valid date/time
> ranges.  It would probably also be smart to check that a piece of e-mail

Not even, all it would have to do is look for a valid date/time, period.

According to RFC 822:

        Section 4.1 says...

                orig-date    = "Date"  ":"  date-time

        Section 5.1 says...

                date-time     = [ day "," ] date time
                ...
                date          = 1*2DIGIT month 2DIGIT ; day month year
                                                      ;  e.g. 20 Jun 82

RFC 1123 changes date to

                date          = 1*2DIGIT month 2*4DIGIT

All valid email must cary a msg with Date fields of the following format:

        D Mon YY
        DD Mon YY
        D Mon YYYY
        DD Mon YYYY

Anything else can be dropped.
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