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Subject: Re: Don't add domainname to 'To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;'
From: Bennett Todd (betrahul.net)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 09:21:54 CDT

2000-06-14-06:43:25 Brad Knowles:
> At 6:56 PM -0400 2000/6/13, Bennett Todd wrote:
> >> Make sure that the mail you send has either a "To" or "Cc" line in the
> >> headers.
> >
> > Or a "Bcc: " header, if you don't want anything wicked to this way
> > come at all.
>
> I believe that a valid "To:" and/or "Cc:" header is required,
> period.

Well, at least according to RFC 822 section A.3.1, one minimal legal
set of headers is non-empty "Date:" and "From:" with empty "Bcc:",
while the other replaces the empty "Bcc:" with a non-empty "To:".
Has RFC 822 been superceded on this matter?

> The presence or absence of a "Bcc:" header is immaterial.

Not according to the apparently relevant RFC.

-Bennett

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