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

Charles Lindsey <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

What do you mean by "altogether breaks"?  It looks to me like it causes
sendmail to corrupt the message by introducing a spurious From header with
no actual content (a bug in sendmail, IMO, as an MTA should not be
modifying even messages that it deems syntactically invalid), but that
seems a far cry short of "altogether breaks" and just would put sendmail
into the class of programs that don't correctly comply with this draft.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>