On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:21, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote: > > Hmm, synchronisation might be an issue when done with the Message-ID > > header. But there _are_ other ways. Lets think about comparing the > > contents that are important information (like message content, To:, > > From:, CC:, BCC:, any more?). > > Subject: > > but are they guaranteed not to be mangled by MTAs and the like? I regulary > see cyrus replacing some characters in Subject: and From: that it doesn't > like.
Netscape mail server removes white-space at the start of the subject field and they won't accept a bug report about it. Postfix and Qmail correctly preserved all combinations of random ASCII data in the subject as of my last tests with Postal/rabid. Postal/rabid do MD5 checks on message body and selected header fields (including Subject). Check how your mail server performs... -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
