Re: [fetchmail-devel] Re: fetchmail segfault on 'empty' mail

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Sunil Shetye <sh...@bo...> writes:

> On a side note, I feel that the empty messages point to a problem of
> mail delivery error on your ISP side. For even if somebody sends you
> an empty mail, your ISP must be adding atleast two headers
> (Return-Path: and Delivered-To:). Otherwise, your multidrop setup
> would not have worked at all. So, even a minimal mail cannot be
> headerless.

It is also a violation of the 23 year old RFC-822 which requires that at
least From: and Date: and either of To: or Bcc: must be present.

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Matthias Andree