but in fact you _can_ send one with no header info at all. as long as it has an envelope address it will go to the right place. some mta's (or was it the mailing list software) will add headers like in the message I just sent to the list. However the original message had no headers, as illustrated by the telnet session used to generate it.
mail from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 Ok rcpt to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 Ok data 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> no headers hopefully not many headers in this email . 250 Ok: queued as 7AD67DBAE On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 10:18:41 +1200 Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 05:32, Ken McAllister wrote: > > This is an email with no "from" address and no "reply-to" address. > > > > I cannot see how to eliminate those addresses from an email done in > > Mozilla. Is it important that I don't?? > > As far as I can make out, the email standard [1] requires both a "From" > and a "Reply-To" field. It appears that you can have multiple addresses > listed in the "From" field but only one listed in the "Reply-To" and the > user generally cannot alter the "From" field after setting up the > account, but the "Reply-To" field can be altered on a per-message basis. > > Don't stress if you send both. > > > [1] RFC 822 > > -- > Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/ > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
