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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Mail header format?
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.034847.7052@Think.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 03:48:47 GMT
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In article <16912@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>AM I correct in deducing that *all* email header fields a re listed,
>one per line, starting at the top (any continuations are
>space-indeneted on following lines), and the header is terminated by a
>blank line?  All lines following the blank are the body.

You're correct if you're trying to describe RFC822 mail format.

Read the RFC for more details.
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