Is this a mimetools/rfc822 bug?

[Sheila King]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:37:51 -0400, barry at digicool.com (Barry A. Warsaw)
wrote about Re: Is this a mimetools/rfc822 bug?:

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:>>>>> "SK" == Sheila King <sheila at spamcop.net> writes:
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:    SK> So far as I know, leading newline characters are not allowed
:    SK> in the header. A newline character indicates the end of the
:    SK> headers.
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:Correct, and rfc822 is fairly strict about what it accepts.  Leading
:empty lines in the text will toggle it over from "reading-headers"
:mode to "reading-body" mode.  It's even worse if you have no headers,
:but your first body line has a colon in it!

But, according to the RFC's a header is required. A message body is not
required.

According to RFCs I recall: Your message header must have at least one
of the following headers: To, Bcc, or CC. I believe that is the minimal
header: any one of the To-type fields. No other headers are required,
and no message body is required.

--
Sheila King
http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
http://www.k12groups.org/

:Moral: massage and normalize your text before feeding it to rfc822.
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:-Barry
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