Thunderbird Slayer ! URGENT

[Peter]

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> It breaks all threading email clients in some ways.  The real solution
> is that you start using a mail system that works.

The real solution is that you people start using a MUA that cannot be 
tied up in knots by the next best spam message typed in by anyone above 
the age of 7 in 5 minutes using a text editor. Let alone by an 
inadvertent typo made by someone (me) in the source code of the pine 
(sic!) MUA. Would you like me to post a message on this list with the 
headers (among others):

From: innocent h. acker
Message-Id: <thunderbird.sucks at bad>
References: <thunderbird.sucks at bad> <thunderbird.sucks at bad>
To: all who may be concerned

just to test if you updated your software already ? I'll hold it off 
until you say it's ok to send, ok ? Just in case you want to send it to 
yourself, for testing purposes of course, you can use echo -e 
"hdr\nhdr\n\nmsg\nmsg\n..."|sendmail -t to inject any headers you like 
into the mail system without needing to modify any source code.

And speaking of borked mail systems, guess where it is specified that 
the MTA should accept mail headers supplied by the MUA (hint, hint, no 
it's not pine, it's your supposedly secure MTA, but worse, it's in 
something that ends with 822).

Peter
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