On 4/23/14 1:40 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
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.
Sorry for being obscure. 6854 says:
from = "From:" (mailbox-list / address-list) CRLF
And from 5322:
address-list = (address *("," address)) / obs-addr-list
mailbox-list = (mailbox *("," mailbox)) / obs-mbox-list
address = mailbox / group
mailbox = name-addr / addr-spec
name-addr = [display-name] angle-addr
angle-addr = [CFWS] "<" addr-spec ">" [CFWS] /
obs-angle-addr
group = display-name ":" [group-list] ";" [CFWS]
display-name = phrase
Which makes the following legal (from the examples in 6854):
From: Nightly Monitor Robot:;
pr
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