Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!dboyes From: dboyes@brazos.rice.edu (David Boyes) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Multiple To: (and other) header lines in a single message Message-ID: <1991Mar11.054820.15157@rice.edu> Date: 11 Mar 91 05:48:20 GMT Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Distribution: na Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 33 As postmaster, I often receive messages from a A Large Computer Manufacturer's mail daemon about problems delivering mail to a site on the other side of their machine. These messages all have 2 or more distinct To: lines in the message headers, much like: . . . To: To: In reading RFC 822 and 1123, I can't tell whether this is legal or not. Before I go after this site's postmaster to Fix This, I'd like to get the opinion of other people in my situation. 1) Is this behavior legal? 2) I know it's been customary since the Twenex days to put multiple addresses on the To: line, but is it mandated anywhere other than a desire to prevent your postmaster from being crisped by others who have to deal with the error mail? Thanks in advance. -- David Boyes |The three most dangerous things in the world: dboyes@rice.edu | 1) a programmer with a soldering iron, | 2) a hardware type with a program patch, and "Delays, delays!" | 3) a user with an idea.