who was that last message to again?

[Dave Korn]

On 30 April 2006 00:17, Eric Blake wrote:

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> According to Brian Dessent on 4/26/2006 11:08 PM:
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> Whoa.  This mail exposed a bug in Thunderbird.  The To: line in my message
> display didn't wrap, and didn't offer a horizontal scroll bar, so all I
> could see without viewing full source was
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> To: "me too. Was: Wow - for once, I sent a mail with a To: having more
> characters than,my ISP's lame Message-id: header (which I have been told
> has more,than enough b
> 
> Then, according to 'view source', all you sent was
> 
> To:
>  "me too. Was: Wow - for once, I sent a mail with a To: having more
>  characters than,my ISP's lame Message-id: header (which I have been told
>  has more,than enough bits in it to uniquely identify the age of every atom
>  in the,universe in nanoseconds, let a, cygwin-talk AT cygwin DOT com

  Sounds like a 255 char limit, yet RFC2822 says lines can be up to 998 chars
long, and that it is "incumbent" on Thunderbird to deal.  Then again,
truncating is a way of dealing...

> (Well, not quite - it used @ and . instead of AT and DOT).  Notice there
> was no closing quote!  How'd it even get delivered to me without a valid
> email address?  

  Ah, the wonders of the SMTP envelope!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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