On 4/23/2014 11:28 AM, Pete Resnick wrote:
On 4/23/14 12:35 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 4/22/2014 5:30 PM, Martin Rex wrote:
RFC5322.From might contain no DNS domain to begin with.
So a From: field address with no domain name has never been valid for
"Internet" email.
Well, except http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6854
You seem to be saying that that doc counters my assertion.
This is a classic example of the problem with such a generic pointer:
it leaves the reader to search through the document to find the
essential bit of text. And alas in my case, I failed.
I do not see anything in that doc that makes it valid to have a From
field with no domain name.
d/
ps. If indeed that doc re-introduced that bit of flexibility, it needs
to be fixed.
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net