On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, peter green wrote: > * Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020203 14:18]: > > Most messages that I get, these days, matches the "missing date" test, > > and ends up with something like: > > > > X-Mail-Format-Warning: Bad RFC822 header formatting in Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 >14:31:08 +0000 (GMT) > > > > Of course, that's /not/ an invalid RFC822 date, it's SpamAssassin[1] > > deciding that it's not really very happy. > > 1) RFC822 has been obsoleted. SA should be doing a check against RFC2822. > > 2) That *is* an invalid RFC822/2822 date. The specification for the time > does NOT allow for the ``local differential'' (+0000) and the timezone (GMT) > to be specified simultaneously. Further, the zone specification, whether in > +0000 or GMT format, should not be encased in parentheses.
Things in parentheses are comments, and legal. See RFC2822, Section 3.2.3. So that is a valid RFC2822 date. (I just learned this the other day.) _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
