[JAMES-98] Mailet NotifySender has several problems with the headers it generates

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: SpoolManager & Processors
• Environment: Operating System: Solaris; Platform: Sun
• Bugzilla Id: 18307
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Paul Overell
• Created: 25/Mar/03 17:46
• Updated: 06/Jun/04 20:51
• Resolved: 06/Jun/04 20:51

Description

I'm using James 2.1.2, Solaris 9 and it's all working well, but I have a few
grumbles about the header
of a messages produced by NotifySender:

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:15:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:SMTP Monitor Test Message
In-Reply-To: null
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_Part_2_9800697.1048526143712"

There are some problems with this header:

1) The address in the To: line is the postmaster's address, not the
recipient's address. However, the notify message is correctly
delivered to the recipient.

2) Arguably this isn't a reply, but a notification, so "Re:" should
not have been added to the subject. But even if "Re:" were to
be added it should have a space after the colon "Re: ".

3) The In-Reply-To: line is syntactically invalid according to
RFC2822 - "null" isn't a message-id. (Even if it were valid
it's certainly not what was intended).

4) Finally a wish: please can we have RFC1894 format notification
messages?

Here is the relevant part of my config.xml

<mailet match="All" class="NotifySender">
<notice>
We were unable to deliver the attached message
</notice>

<passThrough>false</passThrough>
</mailet>