On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, John Horne wrote:
> I could be dumb here but under what scenario would more than one address
> appear in the From: header? I have tried it and it works, but I can't think
> why anyone (or software) would do this.
To paraphrase the mountaineering answer: "Because it's possible" ?
Consider:
From: tom@domain1, dick@domain2, harry@domain3
Sender: tom@domain1
Reply-To: dick@domain2
Subject: Invite
Please come to our joint party. RSVP to Dick.
RFC822 has this example:
George's secretary sends out a message which was authored
jointly by all the members of a committee. Note that the name
of the committee cannot be specified, since <group> names are
not permitted in the From field.
From: Jones@Host,
Smith@Other-Host,
Doe@Somewhere-Else
Sender: Secy@SHost
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