[Tfug] Anyone seen AOL email problems starting Wednesday

[Terence Rudkin]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 17:00, Choprboy wrote:

> > One such case the user had coded the string for rcpt as
> > rcpt( "To : someone at eamil"   )
> > this was code existing for over a year that stopped working.  The fix
> > was to code 
> > rcpt( "To: someone at eamil"   ) ## no space before colon.
> >
> I know the answer to that! Having a space inbetween the "To" and ":" is in 
> fact a violation of RFC822/2822 (section 2.2). But I have seen the format 
> before as well. Many spam/virus filters seem to be getting far more stingy 
> about such things as most virus/spam programs are rather lax when it comes to 
> standards... Apparently your Oracle app is really a virus ;-)
Just in the defense of Oracle the formating comes from the programmer
not  the API.