On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 08:25:59PM +0100, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> > v3. The issue I'm dealing with right now is a header that says
> > To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
> > , about the legality of which I know different views have been
> > expressed.
>
> Could you post a cite for the standard that says it's legal, please? I'd
> be interested in seeing it.
It is not legal. It is a mis-implementation of:
To: Undisclosed Recpients : ;
which *is* legal.
Actually, you can have any text acceptable in a 'real name' part there.
If you quote it, you can have anything you want.
I beleive this is referred to a 'group syntax' in 2822 and 822...
>
> It's certainly not legal from my reading of either of RFCs 822 or 2822,
> because the "group" syntax occurs as the expansion of "address", and the
> angle-addr (which have the < addr-spec > rule) occurs as an expansion of
> "mailbox" which is an alternative to "group" in the "address" expansion.
>
> (this is at the bottom of page 15 of RFC2822)
>
> I didn't go to find it in 822, but as I recall, it's pretty similar.
>
> MBM
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