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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: Dumplicated 'To' fields
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 22:38:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluznl06wpw.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <plop87wug5asra.fsf@gnu-rox.org> (Xavier Maillard's message of "Mon, 02 Jun 2003 08:38:33 +0200")

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently received what I have seen as a weird mail. In fact the
> headers contained two 'To' fields in it. As I am curious on the purpose
> of such a method, I've tried by myself using Gnus and it worked.

It is valid, so it should work.

> Now I am asking if this is really authorized by any RFC and if we
> shouldn't disable such a feature in case it is not.

Gnus didn't generate the situation, did it?  So if the user typed the
headers manually, I think it is better to do what she said.  See RFC
(2)822.




  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-02 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-02  6:38 Xavier Maillard
2003-06-02 20:38 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2003-06-02 20:56   ` Jesper Harder
2003-06-02 21:23     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-06-02 22:38       ` Jesper Harder
2003-06-02 22:55         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-06-03  3:03           ` Xavier Maillard

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