[Scgeeks] Re: [Bug] headers parsing bug [extra Received: headers found]

[Mike Easter]

Andrzej Filip wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:

>> The reason SC erred by trying to rearrange the whitespace of the XSA
>> line which contained a standard Received traceline content which was
>> 'mangled' in the opinion of the algo was because the algo is 'taught'
>> how to handle many different kinds of suboptimal header submissions.
>>
>> You Andrzej are not going to be able to convince the algo coder to
>> dumb down the algo so that it won't misparse your wild XSA preview
>> lines when those lines are all junked up with header elements which
>> don't belong up there in a header field value.
>
> Look at the *original* submission:
>
http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z1574530141zb39c8a082e6c406ee01039820dfd8f34z;action=display

I did.  I still think that the XSAPreview field in this example is a
'mess' and I'm not very sympathetic about SC messing it up some more.

> The problem is that spamcop "parsed" content of "X-SA-Preview:" -
> the header should be simply skipped.

And I think that xsapreview shouldn't be copying all of that header
information from the mailbody about a header up into a different header
a field.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin