Tue, 3 Sep 1991 15:40:04 EDT
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Every once in a while someone sends mail to a JHVUM Listserv list and
includes a "From:" header line that contains a quoted string spanning
a line. Some piece of software somewhere at Harvard mis-handles such
mail headers and sends the mangled files back to [log in to unmask] I've
sent information on this problem to the "postmaster" address at several
Harvard sites, but have never received a reply and the software is still
broken. This has been going on for many months if not years, and I'm
petitioning you all in the hopes that someone has a contact at Harvard
that can help. Anyone that will do more than simply discard e-mail
would be an improvement. I'd also like to find out if anyone else is
having the same problem, so I have included a sample. The mail header
as created on JHUVM contained a From: line that looked like:
From: "Ecoloical Linguistics,Anderson,
PRT" <[log in to unmask]>
Some code at Harvard is discarding the first line and then claiming that
the mail is undeliverable. I'm really getting tired of being ignored
every time I report this problem. Any help anyone can provide in
contacting someone that cares about e-mail at Harvard would be greatly
appreciated.
-jj
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>The enclosed mail file, found in the ISO10646 reader and shown under the
>spoolid 3850 in the console log, has been identified as a possible delivery
>error notice for the following reason: mail origin seems to be a mailer or
>mail-daemon.
>
>------------------------- Message in error (85 lines) -------------------------
>Received: by husc6.harvard.edu; Sun, 1 Sep 91 19:03:08 EDT
>Received: by harvard.harvard.edu (5.54/a0.25)
> (for [log in to unmask]) id AA22149; Sun, 1 Sep 91 20:12:10 EDT
>Date: Sun, 1 Sep 91 20:12:10 EDT
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>554 <[log in to unmask]>... Unbalanced '"'
>554 <[log in to unmask]>... Unbalanced '"'
>554 <[log in to unmask]>... Unbalanced '"'
>>>> DATA
><<< 554 <harvard!JHUVM.BITNET!ISO10646>... Unbalanced '"'
>554 <[log in to unmask]>... Service unavailable: Bad file
> number
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
>Received: from BUACCA by talcott.harvard.edu with BITNET; Sun, 1 Sep 91 19:44:0
> EDT
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Received: by BUACCA (Mailer R2.05) id 6804; Sun, 01 Sep 91 18:08:34 EDT
>Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1991 22:01:00 GMT
>Reply-To: Multi-byte Code Issues <[log in to unmask]>
>Sender: Multi-byte Code Issues <[log in to unmask]>
> PRT" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Korean subc agenda proposals?
>X-To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
>To: Anoosh Hosseini <[log in to unmask]>
>
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