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Is ASCII 0 valid in a message body?
This line is from an "inbox" mail file (wherever "mailbox" delivers mail)
fax: 55 5 5555555From coombs.anu.edu.au!owner-pacific-islands-l Sun Jul 23...
^^
Note how the message from coombs.anu.edu.au starts on the same line as the
end of the previous message. I'm guessing a NUL character (ASCII 0) was
at the end of the previous message, which in UNIX means end of input/file/etc.
This often happens with mail coming from auckland.ac.nz and sent with Pegasus
Mail/Mac. It causes most mail user agents (Pine, MM) to misparse the mail file
and display two messages as one, or sometimes skip all messages after that
altogether.
Questions:
1) What range of ASCII characters are allowed in the body of a message
sent via SMTP?
2) Has anyone else experienced this? How are you handling it?
Thanks.
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