[OT]Help trying to understand rfc822!
hi, I know it's a bit OT here, but given the collective knowledge on RFC822 that gathers here, I hope someone can help me a bit. Besides, its MTA related after all ;) I'm sending mail from a perl script and I have one var (or config setting) for the 'To:' field. This script uses Net::SMTP to deliver its load directly into a sendmail box. Now if I insert 2 addresses, like '[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]', and there's a qmail at scim.net everything's allright. Now some hosts don't like this: I'm having problems because relay.sion.com rejects my 'To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I've tried it with qmail-inject, manually feeding it with a 'To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]' and it doesn't bounce! Reading RFC822 (at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc822.html) I can see the appendix A, in the item A.1.5., it looks like it should be valid. In fact at A.3.3. there's an example that looks very much like mine... I'll find a workaround in the meantime, but, am I wrong to think its allright to have a comma-delimited To: field? martin
Re: [OT]Help trying to understand rfc822!
martin langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sending mail from a perl script and I have one var (or config setting) for the 'To:' field. This script uses Net::SMTP to deliver its load directly into a sendmail box. I assume that Net::SMTP is breaking this up into multiple separate MAIL TO commands at the protocol level? Now if I insert 2 addresses, like '[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]', and there's a qmail at scim.net everything's allright. Now some hosts don't like this: I'm having problems because relay.sion.com rejects my 'To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Addresses should be separated by commas; your second example doesn't have a comma. Reading RFC822 (at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc822.html) I can see the appendix A, in the item A.1.5., it looks like it should be valid. In fact at A.3.3. there's an example that looks very much like mine... I'll find a workaround in the meantime, but, am I wrong to think its allright to have a comma-delimited To: field? Comma-delimited To: headers are fine. You can't send a comma-delimited address in the MAIL TO command, but Net::SMTP may do the right thing there. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/
