From: "Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>
To: "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: auth-source patch for secure logging
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:55:23 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33120.130.55.118.19.1247759723.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87my74r941.fsf@lifelogs.com>
> TZ> Attached is a patch to auth-source.el that:
>
> Of course, the actual patch file is optional on the first message.
>
> Ted
In fact, the grammar in RFC 2045 explicitly forbids a MIME boundary within
any message whose body contains the words "attached", "attachment", or
"attaching" (in any case) on a line that does not begin with a >, so as to
avoid confusing pre-MIME MTAs that would mistake it for the beginning of a
new, non-textual message in the DECnet style (much like the common problem
of ">From" in mbox files). Some modern MUAs can be configured to ignore
this restriction since it's so rarely relevant now, but very few users
know about those (non-compliant) features.
So it's really not your fault.
Davis
PS - I hear that Google is actively flouting the RFC with their GMail
service by explicitly asking the user if they meant to attach files when
they request to send a compliant message. Fortunately it's still an
experimental ("Labs") feature, and the IETF has been notified.
PPS - If replying to this message, be sure to use the > quotation style if
you desire to attach any files; the body of this message (and this very
postpostscript) include the words called out in the RFC.
--
This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or
too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during
shipping.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-16 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-16 14:23 auth-source patch for secure logging Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-16 14:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-16 15:55 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2009-07-16 16:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-16 15:32 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-16 16:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-16 18:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-17 17:31 ` Glenn Morris
2009-07-17 17:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-17 18:01 ` Glenn Morris
2009-07-17 18:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-17 18:35 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-18 17:21 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-17 19:42 ` Sven Joachim
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