dovecot - Jun 2012 - Wrong headers in dovecot-crlf

Hello everyone,

I'm using the very good imaptest [0] tool to test my little imap server
implementation. I've tried to use the dovecot-crlf [1] file, but it looks
like
there are some major issues :

$ grep -n "In-Reply-To.*;" tests/data/dovecot-crlf
479:In-Reply-To: <20020806175441.GA7148 at linux.taugt.net>; from
rueckert at informatik.uni-rostock.de on Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 07:54:41PM +0200
525:In-Reply-To: <20020806234054.GA30820 at carpa.ciagri.usp.br>; from
marcelo at carpa.ciagri.usp.br on Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 08:40:54PM -0300
564:In-Reply-To: <20020806234054.GA30820 at carpa.ciagri.usp.br>; from
marcelo at carpa.ciagri.usp.br on Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 08:40:54PM -0300
673:In-Reply-To: <20020807231956.GA11240 at carpa.ciagri.usp.br>; from
marcelo at carpa.ciagri.usp.br on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:19:56PM -0300
795:In-Reply-To: <20020808131329.GA30775 at carpa.ciagri.usp.br>; from
marcelo at carpa.ciagri.usp.br on Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:13:30AM -0300
964:In-Reply-To: <20020808193533.GA28619 at carpa.ciagri.usp.br>; from
marcelo at carpa.ciagri.usp.br on Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:35:33PM -0300
21545:In-Reply-To: <1046294808.30811.66.camel at hurina>; from tss at
iki.fi on Wed,
Feb 26, 2003 at 11:26:48PM +0200
22042:In-Reply-To: <1046373554.18310.4.camel at hurina>; from tss at
iki.fi on Thu,
Feb 27, 2003 at 09:19:14PM +0200
23712:In-Reply-To: <20030227212127.A10927 at pcx3332.desy.de>; from
Juergen.Kahnert at DESY.de on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:21:27PM +0100
25498:In-Reply-To:
<OFF6D684CA.26838A7C-ON42256CE8.003A8EFC-42256CE8.003B49AC at icoc.org>;
from
Leslie_Viljoen at icoc.org on Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:44:52PM +0200
30654:In-Reply-To: <1048667343.30187.100.camel at hurina>; from tss at
iki.fi on Wed,
Mar 26, 2003 at 10:29:03AM +0200
31126:In-Reply-To: <1048704303.31565.214.camel at hurina>; from tss at
iki.fi on Wed,
Mar 26, 2003 at 08:45:03PM +0200
31313:In-Reply-To: <1048928723.6856.21.camel at hurina>; from tss at
iki.fi on Sat,
Mar 29, 2003 at 11:05:23AM +0200
31820:In-Reply-To: <1049101161.884.126.camel at hurina>; from tss at
iki.fi on Mon,
Mar 31, 2003 at 11:59:21AM +0300
31890:In-Reply-To:
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0303311009510.17234-100000 at vegemite.nssg.mitel.com>;
from
charlieb-dovecot at e-smith.com on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:12:22AM -0500
32037:In-Reply-To:
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0303311414410.17234-100000 at vegemite.nssg.mitel.com>;
from
charlieb-dovecot at e-smith.com on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:19:27PM -0500
32463:In-Reply-To: <1049243642.11879.25.camel at hurina>; from tss at
iki.fi on Wed,
Apr 02, 2003 at 03:34:02AM +0300


As you can see, many of the "In-Reply-To" headers are polluted with
some junk.
The situation is the same for many "Message-ID" headers.

I don't know why they are here, but I think it's a mistake. I thought I
would
let you know.

[0] http://imapwiki.org/ImapTest
[1] http://www.dovecot.org/tmp/dovecot-crlf

Regards,

--
Matthieu RAKOTOJAONA

On 26.6.2012, at 21.55, Matthieu RAKOTOJAONA wrote:
> I'm using the very good imaptest [0] tool to test my little imap server
> implementation. I've tried to use the dovecot-crlf [1] file, but it
looks like
> there are some major issues :
> 
> $ grep -n "In-Reply-To.*;" tests/data/dovecot-crlf
> 479:In-Reply-To: <20020806175441.GA7148 at linux.taugt.net>; from
> rueckert at informatik.uni-rostock.de on Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 07:54:41PM
+0200
Yes, those aren't valid RFC 2822 headers. I'm not entirely sure if
they're valid RFC 822 headers.
> As you can see, many of the "In-Reply-To" headers are polluted
with some junk.
> The situation is the same for many "Message-ID" headers.
> 
> I don't know why they are here, but I think it's a mistake. I
thought I would
> let you know.
They're there because those headers were sent originally to this list. I
don't have any specific reason to modify the mails, and it might be better
not to do it so that real world parsers can also figure out what to do with
broken mails.