On 6/12/08 at 4:05 PM +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
Pete Resnick wrote:
You will note that 2822 requires you to accept messages with *none*
of these fields. (See section 4.)
I don't see that. Elaborate?
I do see that 2822 section 4 requires me to accept lots of
additional "syntax forms", but I do not see where it requires me to
accept an empty string and interpret that as an email message.
I guess I will back off of that statement: I had always assumed that
since section 4.5 relax the restriction on multiple occurrences of
fields, it also relaxed the minimums. But it never says that, and
unlike section 3.6, it does not add a new table and it does not make
any statement about which (if any) fields are required.
That said, I will stick by the statement that 822 (and 2822 for that
matter) make no claims about what a receiver ought to do when it
receives a message without the minimum required fields.
pr
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