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Subject:Re: [courier-users] Unmatched quotes in headersActions...
From:Stephen Welker (step@nemostar.com.au)
Date:Aug 3, 2000 9:18:16 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

--On Tuesday, 1 August 2000 5:42 PM -0400 Sam Varshavchik <mrs@stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Stephen Welker wrote:

Sam,

I have a situation where some old email being migrated to the Courier IMAP server have unbalanced double quotes (") in the "To:" message header field.

--- begin example --- To: Sam" <sa@somedomain.com> --- end example ---

Is it part of the spec (RFC) that the quotes should be "escaped" or

Yes. Quotes are special characters in RFC 822.

balanced properly prior to storage or is up the the IMAP server to escape them apon output?

No. The IMAP server is required to parse RFC 822 headers upon demand by the client. You have an syntactically invalid header, so all bets are off.

So why am I am able to "upload" the messages into the Courier IMAP server and not be able to retrieve them?

BTW: I am using MS OE 5.02 (Mac) to upload and Mulberry 2.0.3 (Mac) to retrieve them.

-- Stephen Welker