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Re: Mandatory From field, anonymity, and hacks

2005-02-02 05:21:41

In <200502011209(_dot_)47798(_dot_)blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly 
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:

On Mon January 31 2005 16:27, Charles Lindsey wrote:

RFC 2821 is part of the core Internet protocol suite, and
its section 3.8.4 requirements are indeed serious.

But can you
point to some realistic scenario (or, better, some actual MUA) in which
something might actually break if such a modified header were to arrive at
an agent?

See RFC 2821 section 3.8.4.

That section of RFC 2821 is concerned only with gatewaying. What we are
discussing is ordinary mail produced by ordinary MUAs and remaining in the
SMTP environment until final delivery. Please answer the question with
respect to that environment.

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