Re: Mandatory From field, anonymity, and hacks

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In <[email protected]> Bruce Lilly <[email protected]> writes:

>On Mon January 31 2005 16:35, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> 
>> Have you ever tried sending a message with no Message-ID through sendmail?

>Sendmail acts as an MSA; what's your point (if you have one)?

Sendmail is widely used as an MTA, and has been since long before separate
MSAs were thought of.

May I suggest that you submit a message to this list containing no From
field and no Message-ID field, and let us see exactly what ends up in
various people's mailboxes.

>> False premise, leading to false conclusion.

>Excuse me?

You are excused.

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