Re: draft-lilly-from-optional-01.txt

On Wed February 23 2005 07:37, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> 
> This latest draft fails to address the problem I reaised earlier, namely
> that omitting the From field altogether breaks a widely deployed MTA,
> namely sendmail (and maybe others too) which is regularly configured to
> insert a From field of its own choosing if it finds none present already.

MTAs do not alter content; they are forbidden to do so.  MSAs can be
configured to do so, but are recommended to tread lightly.

> I asked you (Bruce) to post a test message to this list containing no From
> field (and no Message-ID field for that matter) so that the effect of your
> proposal on existing MTAs could be evaluated. Why have you not done this?

Because of the general rule "don't feed the trolls".  But since you
are so persistent,.. "What do you mean -- is that an African swallow
or a European one?".