Re: Minimal presence of MIME headers in message payload

> Per RFC 3080 Section 2.2, MIME headers may be used to describe message
> payload content:
>
> ,----
> | A message is structured according to the rules of MIME.   
> Accordingly,
> | each message may begin with "entity-headers" (c.f., MIME's Section 3
> | [1]).  If none, or only some, of the "entity-headers" are present:
> `----
>
> In the case where /no/ headers are present, is there just a spare CRLF
> pair at the beginning of the payload after the BEEP header?

yes.


> That is,
> would the following message be valid?
>
> ,----
> | MSG 0 1 . 0 5
> |
> | xxxEND
> `----

yes.


> Or could one send the same content without the spare CRLF pair?
>
> ,----
> | MSG 0 1 . 0 3
> | xxxEND
> `----

no, for the reason you list.

/mtr