The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'Advice for Safe Handling of Malformed Messages' <draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-09.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-10-29. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Although Internet mail formats have been precisely defined since the 1970s, authoring and handling software often show only mild conformance to the specifications. The malformed messages that result are non-standard. Nonetheless, decades of experience has shown that handling with some tolerance the malformations that result is often an acceptable approach, and is better than rejecting the messages outright as nonconformant. This document includes a collection of the best advice available regarding a variety of common malformed mail situations, to be used as implementation guidance. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
