Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-lilly-from-optional-02.txt

In <[email protected]> Keith Moore <[email protected]> writes:

>FWIW, when I tried sending a message to this list without a From field,

>a) sendmail immediately added a From: <mailer-daemon@...>

But that may just have been your submission sendmail. More interesting is
what would happen if it arrived at a relaying MTA like that.
>b) the message never appeared on the list

Which is worrying.

>IMHO either From: <> or From: <-@[]> would work better.

OK, since Bruce seems unwilling to put any of this to a practical test, I
have just submitted three messages to this list, by telnetting directly to
my usual smarthost.

One has no From at all
One has From: Charles Lindsey <>
One has From: Charles Lindsey <-@[]>

Please report here how they reached you, or if any of them fails to
arrive.

Note that none of them has a Message-ID, so it might also be interesting
to see whether any Message-IDs get added en route.

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