From: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de Subject: Re: operator message 5 Feb 1997 16:53:22 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <009AF74E.B1B85B40.9314.cygnus.gnu-win32@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> Original-To: shankar AT chromatic DOT com Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, you wrote: : with an empty body fed into stdin. Sendmail will stick in an : Apparently-To: synthesized from the recipients on the command line if : there's no "To:" line in the message (which there obviously isn't: he : seems to have fed an empty file to sendmail). The other headers are all : synthesized by sendmail in its normal course of operation.. : : The "To: " header is not guaranteed to exist.. Strange! RFC822 is still uptodate according to RFC1920. Excerpt: message = fields *( CRLF *text ) ; Everything after ; first null line ; is message body fields = dates ; Creation time, source ; author id & one 1*destination ; address required *optional-field ; others optional destination = "To" ":" 1#address ; Primary / "Resent-To" ":" 1#address / "cc" ":" 1#address ; Secondary / "Resent-cc" ":" 1#address / "bcc" ":" #address ; Blind carbon / "Resent-bcc" ":" #address Obviously the destination is required. How else could it have been sent to gnu-win32? Note that RFC822 doesn't mention "Apperantly-To:" at all! I can't easily grep thru all RFCs; so where is "Apperantly-To:" defined? Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de) - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".