Content-Type: text

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:

>Apparently some mailers generate invalid Content-Type 
>headers.  Specifically, "Content-Type: text" has been seen.  It's invalid 
>because the spec (rfc2045) requires 'type "/" subtype.  (See below for a 
>quote from rfc2045).
>
>Currently bogofilter requires the slash and will skip a mime part whose 
>content lacks the slash.  It has been suggested that bogofilter be changed 
>to accept messages with non-conformant lines.
>
>The question is:  Should bogofilter continue to require the slash, or not?

I'd assume that RfC-ignorant readers which don't even
generate required headers by default (like Outbreak Excess)
do display this crap. So spammers might use it.

pi