On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 09:11:51AM -0500, John W. Lemons III wrote:
> When a user BCCs a list of people, their message gets delivered to all but
> one of the people on the list. Their mail server bounces it. Apparently,
> tech support for their mail server claims that the envelope is invalid
> because it doesn't contain an X-Recipient header. I dug through some RFCs
> and can't find any mention of X-Recipient. I'd assume it hasn't been
> adopted yet, and they are relying on an experimental header. Since this
> message goes everywhere but there, I'd like some info as to why they are
> broke so I can convince them to fix it or change servers. It sounds like
> their tech support doesn't know what they are talking about, but I'd
> appreciate any info.
Their mailserver is broken. *any* mailserver that looks at headers to do
delivery is *slightly* broken, and any mailserver that *bounces*
messages based on headers or missing headers is *severely* broken.
That's what you should tell them, and you should not believe anything
else. I have never heard of X-Recipient, and no matter what it means,
hedaers should not be relevant in delivery. RFC821 says so.
Greetz, Peter
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