Neil wrote, On 2/23/09 4:16 AM:
So....apparently I have some messages which are not RFC compliant sitting in
my mailboxes (mostly older ones), and I have some software which is refusing
to handle such messages.
1. Does anyone know of a nice way to verify that all my messages are
compliant/find those that aren't? (I suppose I could use the existing
failing software, but I was hoping for something a little more robust...)
I'm not aware of any such software. Some of the ambiguities of RFC822 were
clarified in RFC2822, but there still isn't perfect consensus on how
strongly any software should demand compliance. That argues for using the
failing software to identify what it deems inadequately compliant.
2. Does anyone know of any tools that will do The Right Thing as far as
fixing these messages are concerned?
That's a bit of a logical problem, as many things that could be wrong are
the absence of information, such as missing headers. If you don't know
what's wrong with a message then obviously there's no way to fix it, but in
some cases even knowing what is wrong does not help.
Googling didn't turn up much for me, but maybe I wasn't hitting the right
terms ("RFC message repair", "fix email message", etc.).
You might have similar results for "pi equals 4" and for the same reasons...
