Bug in Erlang SMTP client?

[Luke Gorrie]

Franck Arnaud <franck@REDACTED> writes:

> This is a long shot, sorry if I'm not in the right place.

Ever thought of opening a detective agency? :-)

> I'm running an SMTP email server and I've got sessions with 
> franklin.telenor.se, which fail because this server is not 
> standards-compliant and tries this:
> 
> MAIL FROM: <user@REDACTED>
> 
> which is illegal, see RFC 2821 or 821, compared to the correct:
> 
> MAIL FROM:<user@REDACTED>
> 
> All other senders I've seen implement this are spammers (who 
> don't read RFCs), so not being tolerant helps a lot in 
> reducing spam.

Nice catch, here's a patch.

--- smtp_format.erl.~1.8.~	1999-10-20 16:04:52.000000000 +0200
+++ smtp_format.erl	2004-01-08 16:00:24.000000000 +0100
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
 -export([xtext_decode/1, xtext_encode/1]).
 
 from(Path) when record(Path, path) ->
-    "FROM: " ++ path(Path) ++ params(Path).
+    "FROM:" ++ path(Path) ++ params(Path).
 
 to(Path) when record(Path, path) ->
-    "TO: " ++ path(Path) ++ params(Path).
+    "TO:" ++ path(Path) ++ params(Path).
 
 %% Format thingies scanned with smtp_scan:path
 path(Path) when record(Path, path) ->

Helpful eh? ;-)

But seriously, sadly Bluetail doesn't support this product
anymore. Possibly the current caretaker at Telenordia is reading this
list and can make a fix though!

Cheers,
Bluetail Support -- Patches From Beyond the Grave