Content-Type: text

[Jesse Meyer]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, David Relson 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'm not a developer or programmer, but presumably bogofilter uses the
content type for some sort of scoring.  Why not allow an invalid content
type (no "/" subtype) to be used as another way to score the message?  

~ Jesse Meyer

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