Re: Mandatory From field, anonymity, and hacks
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> Bruce Lilly <[email protected]> writes: >On Mon January 31 2005 16:27, Charles Lindsey wrote: >RFC 2821 is part of the core Internet protocol suite, and >its section 3.8.4 requirements are indeed serious. > >> But can you >> point to some realistic scenario (or, better, some actual MUA) in which >> something might actually break if such a modified header were to arrive at >> an agent? >See RFC 2821 section 3.8.4. That section of RFC 2821 is concerned only with gatewaying. What we are discussing is ordinary mail produced by ordinary MUAs and remaining in the SMTP environment until final delivery. Please answer the question with respect to that environment. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5