On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:42:34PM +1300, Nick FitzGerald (nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk) wrote: > hurtta+z3at_private wrote: > > > > Well, > > > > Actually message standards (or RFC 822 actually) doe snot requile that blank line, > > if message do not have body. > > > > Note that grammar is: > > > > message = fields *( CRLF *text ) ; Everything after > > ; first null line > > ; is message body > > Therefore > > > > message = fields > > > > is also valid (ie, without that CRLF.) > > So it is. > > On re-reading RFC822 I guess I've always (incorrectly) based my > interpretation on the textual description, for example: [snip excerpt] > Yes -- a pity the drafters of those RFCs wrote them so ambiguously > and I've always preferred words to formulae (diagrams are good > though...). Yeah, someone should get around to writing replacements. ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2821.txt ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt :-) (I don't use The Bat, and I haven't been following this thread closely, so I don't know if the updated RFCs actually clarify the issue at hand, but they do clarify a lot of stuff that 821 and 822 were a little liberal on.) -Rich -- ------------------------------ Rich Lafferty --------------------------- Sysadmin/Programmer, Instructional and Information Technology Services Concordia University, Montreal, QC (514) 848-7625 ------------------------- richat_private ----------------------
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