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- From: jgm+@CMU.EDU (John Gardiner Myers)
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- Subject: Re: discrepancies between RFC821 and RFC822 (as amended by RFC1123) regarding Received headers
- Message-ID: <gfICIOa00WBwQPAmVQ@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 17:10:18 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.gfICIOa00WBwQPAmVQ
- References: <1993Jan10.162048.22777@blilly.uucp>
- Organization: Systems Group 97, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 21
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan10.162048.22777@blilly.uucp>
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- bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly) writes:
- > 1) RFC821 section 4.1.1 requires the "from" and "by" clauses, while
- > RFC822 4.1 lists them as optional.
-
- [...]
-
- > so if a message which arrives at an
- > Internet site via some mechanism other than SMTP contains an RFC822
- > Received header without a "from" or a "by" clause (or without both),
- > it is a technical violation of either RFC821 or RFC1123 to transmit
- > the message via SMTP to another Internet site
-
- I disagree. RFC 821 specifies the grammar of the time stamp line a
- server must insert at the beginning of the mail data (4.1.1.DATA). I
- see no prohibition in RFC 821 against transmitting a message already
- containing Recieved: headers that do not match the <time-stamp-line>
- grammar.
-
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