Received: from localhost by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id NAA00354; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:33:45 -0500 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (bulk_mailer v1.4); Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:33:25 -0500 Received: from koobera.math.uic.edu by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id NAA00334; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:33:23 -0500 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 666); 7 Mar 1996 18:35:16 GMT Date: 7 Mar 1996 18:35:16 GMT Message-ID: <19960307183516.17711.qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu> From: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein) To: drums@cs.utk.edu Subject: Re: Message format document outline > > Message-ID : > > Subject : blurdybloop > These are all illegal per RFC 822 and should continue to be illegal. That's what the sendmail documentation claims, but it's not true. RFC 822, section 3.1.4: ``the free insertion of linear-white-space ... is allowed between lexical tokens.'' RFC 822, section 3.2: ``field = field-name ":" [ field-body ] CRLF'' There is, admittedly, an ambiguity here, because section 3.1.4 is titled ``structured field bodies,'' and the stated purpose of the insertion rule is ``to aid in the creation and reading of structured fields.'' However, the ambiguity is dispelled by RFC 822, section A.3.3. ---Dan