Martin Gregorie <mar...@gregorie.org> wrote:

The string "Undisclosed recipients:" is
actually a legal group address name.


No, it is not.  It needs to be closed with ';' to be legal.  This...

To: Undisclosed recipients:;

... conforms to standard, with or without spaces around the ':' and ';'
characters.  That's a now-rare variant of an address spec which could
possibly be like this...

To: List: us...@example.com, us...@example.com;

... where 'List' is the name of the list, and then a list of any number of
comma-separated addresses follows, and then ';' ends the list.  The
undisclosed recipients:; notation, the only case commonly seen, is just
a list with no addresses in it.  Also somewhat common is...

To: Members of the List Blablabla:;

... as written by Listserv.

Joseph Brennan
Lead Email Systems Engineer
Columbia University Information Technology


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