[Fwd: Netscape mail client error]

[BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM (Blue Boar)]

dolemite () wuli nu wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:15:40 -0800
>  Blue Boar <BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM> wrote:
>
> Email records are often important but I would hope most
> self-respecting admins would bother to log such things on
> the smtp server rather than just looking at the dates on the
> msg. Furthermore I believe there is probably more
> information on the header of the email which would probably
> show some non quasi-dates.
> > Using the mail reader that comes with Communicator 4.7
> >
> > I was noticing that messages place themselves in order of
> > date in my
> > inbox.  The date, of course, is dictated by the sender.
> >
> > After some playing around, I came up with this set of
> > SMTP commands:
> >
> > EHLO thievco.com
> > MAIL FROM:<BlueBoar () thievco com>
> > RCPT TO:<blueboar () thievco com>
> > DATA
> > Date: Fri, 40 Nov
> > 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
> > 30:70:70 -9900
> > From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
> > To: blueboar () thievco com
> > Subject: testsub
> >
> >
> > testbody
> >
> > .
> >
> > QUIT
> >
> > That would cause my mail program trouble.  It reads the
> > mail, places it as
> > the oldest e-mail (thinks it's 12/31/69) and then gives a
> > message:
> >
> > "Error saving mail"
> >
> > So far, nothing has crashed, however it refused to delete
> > them from the POP
> > server.  I had to manually delete them by telnetting to
> > port 110 and doing
> > DELE commands.
> >
> > Clearly, one can expect problems with e-mail clients and
> > news readers
> > trying to interpret intentionally bogus date fields.
> >
> > I present this to the list to see what other interesting
> > problems you guys
> > can discover.
> >
> > I'm tempted to post one to the list, but I don't think I
> > could get everyone
> > (over 3000, now) to consent. :)
> >
> >                                                       BB
>
> g0ate0ats