[Dovecot] OT: Fixing Messages To Be RFC 2822 Compliant

[Bill Cole]

Neil wrote, On 2/23/09 4:16 AM:
> So....apparently I have some messages which are not RFC compliant sitting in
> my mailboxes (mostly older ones), and I have some software which is refusing
> to handle such messages.
> 
> 1. Does anyone know of a nice way to verify that all my messages are
> compliant/find those that aren't? (I suppose I could use the existing
> failing software, but I was hoping for something a little more robust...)

I'm not aware of any such software. Some of the ambiguities of RFC822 were 
clarified in RFC2822, but there still isn't perfect consensus on how 
strongly any software should demand compliance. That argues for using the 
failing software to identify what it deems inadequately compliant.

> 2. Does anyone know of any tools that will do The Right Thing as far as
> fixing these messages are concerned?

That's a bit of a logical problem, as many things that could be wrong are 
the absence of information, such as missing headers. If you don't know 
what's wrong with a message then obviously there's no way to fix it, but in 
some cases even knowing what is wrong does not help.

> Googling didn't turn up much for me, but maybe I wasn't hitting the right
> terms ("RFC message repair", "fix email message", etc.).

You might have similar results for "pi equals 4" and for the same reasons...