Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:42:09 -0700 From: "David Fisher" <fisherds74@hotmail.com> To: eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com, ceri@submonkey.net Cc: eik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issue with your exim port's Makefile Message-ID: <BAY18-F9EwkolrxXfJm00056d27@hotmail.com>
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Hi, I am sorry this got all out of hand, I guess you are folowing RFC's but it seem Outlook and Outlook Express are not allowing the ";" in there, but thanks for fixing it now, it was introduced in Exim v4.24 I believe, as it was not in the Exim v4.22 FreeBSD Port. Thanks much again for the quick fix to the port, -dave >From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> >To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> >CC: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, ports@freebsd.org, David >Fisher <fisherds74@hotmail.com>, eik@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Issue with your exim port's Makefile >Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 12:43:25 +0200 > >Ceri Davies wrote: > >>On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:28:53AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: >> >>>On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:36:47PM -0700, David Fisher wrote: >>> >>>>RFC 822 : >>> >>>RFC0822 is obsoleted, please see RFC2822, paragraph 3.2.3. >> >>Guys, come on. We've been told that it causes problems, and it will >>take all of 4 seconds to fix (literally). Can't we just do it? > >No, we can't. Pushing to do a quick fix to a minor glitch is normally not >a good idea, working together to fully understand the problem, work around >it and test the fix is. Normally I try to test my changes for more than >four seconds. > >I will change this, actually I had it changed in my local copy, but it >didn't made it with the latest upgrade. As you may have noticed I made an >offer to change it in my response, but wanted to know which RFC I'm >breaking, >since the offered alternative `:' did not look much different too me, >RFC-wise. >I just wanted to figure out whether I'm really working around another bug >in >the various forms of Outlook, or if the problem goes deeper. > >You also may have noticed that I tried to clarify this privately (removing >the CC of questions@), so please don't criticize people that are only >trying to help (since they have been asked to do so by the submitter). It >is something >totally different to work around a bug in Outlook (any other character than >`;' >will do) or a RFC violation (where `:' would probably have been illegal, >too). > >To restate: Of course I will add an workaround for Outlook bugs if they >don't >introduce new problems, but I have to understand the problem before just >doing >*something* that will break another mailer. I'm not a big fan of >harum-scarum >patches. Probably the Debian way (using nested comments) is the way to go. > >-Oliver
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