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RFC 7103
Title: Advice for Safe Handling of
Malformed Messages
Author: M. Kucherawy, G. Shapiro,
N. Freed
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: January 2014
Mailbox: superuser@gmail.com,
gshapiro@proofpoint.com,
ned.freed@mrochek.com
Pages: 24
Characters: 48387
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-11.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7103.txt
Although Internet message formats have been precisely defined since
the 1970s, authoring and handling software often shows only mild
conformance to the specifications. The malformed messages that
result are non-standard. Nonetheless, decades of experience have
shown that using some tolerance in the handling of 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; it is to be used as
implementation guidance.
This document is a product of the Applications Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
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