On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> The empty group convention seems quite popular as a way to avoid the
> requirement to actually put an address in the To: field of messages
> like the one below.
Indeed.
> This seems to have started producing the error message below,
> following an upgrade to my Exim.
Upgrading should have made no difference. The only time Exim sends out a
message with the subject 'Mail failure - malformed recipient address' is
when it gets an unparsable address *on the command line*. This is nothing
to do with the contents of the To: header.
> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:48:47 +0100
> From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@???>
> To: ijackson@???
> Subject: Mail failure - malformed recipient address
>
> A message that you sent contained one or more recipient addresses that were
> incorrectly constructed:
>
> Members and Friends of CUSFS:; (recipient list not shown): empty address
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