Right. Also note that it is not clear whether this has anything to do with the reason for the problem originally reported as #3414.
Fortunately, my experience is that all messages I have seen that violate this rule were spam, and seem to have been generated by buggy mass-mailing software (so I hardly see this as a problem, unless my aim were to collect a corpus of spam mails...) /rjb
/ rjb
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2003-04-14 12:56: Subject: MIME multipart message improperly terminated bug [3414]
That does indeed violate MIME. RFC2046, section 5.1.1:
"Boundary delimiters must not appear within the encapsulated material, and must be no longer than 70 characters, not counting the two leading hyphens."
Here, the boundary delimiter ("--XXX") _does_ appear inside the encapsulated material (as part of the boundary delimiter "--XXXAA"), so the message is invalid and Pike is correct in rejecting it. Note that the line break following the delimiter is not part of the delimiter itself.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)