{"draft":"draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-11","doc_id":"RFC7103","title":"Advice for Safe Handling of Malformed Messages","authors":["M. Kucherawy","G. Shapiro","N. Freed"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"24","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"Applications Area Working Group APP","abstract":"Although Internet message formats have been precisely defined since\r\nthe 1970s, authoring and handling software often shows only mild\r\nconformance to the specifications.  The malformed messages that\r\nresult are non-standard.  Nonetheless, decades of experience have\r\nshown that using some tolerance in the handling of the malformations\r\nthat result is often an acceptable approach and is better than\r\nrejecting the messages outright as nonconformant.  This document\r\nincludes a collection of the best advice available regarding a\r\nvariety of common malformed mail situations; it is to be used as\r\nimplementation guidance.","pub_date":"January 2014","keywords":["MTA","SMTP"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7103","errata_url":null}