On 11/16/00 9:50 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On or near 11/16/00 7:39 PM, Ram Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>
>> Yeah, one does this, thanks, but it's not quite logical. Had no such problem
>> with Outlook Express. Well, price for progress, one must suppose.
>
> It's becoming an accepted standard (to require something in the To field) as
> one way of combatting spam. Microsoft Entourage is just doing what is
> considered right.
Actually, there are some SMTP servers (mail.pacbell.net) that will refuse a
message that has no TO recipient and only BCC recipients.
I believe you can't send a valid RFC 822 message with no TO recipient and
only BCC recipients. But I'm not sure of that.
-Omar
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