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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:23:32 +0100
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>, drums@cs.utk.edu, jpalme@dsv.su.se
From: conklin@info.cren.net (Jim Conklin)
Subject: Re: Mandatory headers (was Making Message-ID ...)

  It seems to me, considering the uses and purposes of mail, that the
Message-ID, Date, From, and at least one recipient field SHOULD be
mandatory.
  Robert, why should the requirement for a recipient be not mandatory?  To
my simple mind, mail makes no sense unless it has a recipient, so the
recipient is the MOST mandatory field.  (My personal preference would be to
require the To recipient, but I suspect I'll never convince everyone else
of that.)

Jim

At 11:50 PM 12/29/95 +1100, Robert Elz wrote:
>My understanding was (from reading the grammar, not the text
>necessarily) that several fields are mandatory, aside from
>Received (which is in the text).
>
>Those include Message-ID, Date, From, and at least one recipient
>field (the latter was the subject of some discussion, the outcome
>of which I have forgotten, but I hope it was to delete the recipient
>field requirement).
>
>kre