On 19Nov2020 14:14, raf <m...@raf.org> wrote: >On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:40:43AM +1100, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> >wrote: >> The man page says: >> >> ‐H draft Specify a draft file which contains header and body >> to use to send a message. >> >> Aside from saying that the message includes headers, what else would you >> like it to have said? To me that says "a full message with headers". I'm >> not sure what else would be useful to know. > >Just a thought: if it needs to have a From_ mbox >message header (or if it needs to not have that), it >might be worth mentioning. Even if the mbox message >header is optional, it might be worth mentioning that >it's optional. And I think there are several variations >on the mbox file format (maybe 5?). Which ones, if any, >are supported? Nothing's ever obvious or trivial, >especially when it comes to email. :-)
I'm pretty sure no From_ is required (or even allowed). The From_ line is part of the mbox message separation syntax, not the message headers. There's no From_ in the Maildir per-message files, for example, just the message headers themselves. I guess that could be clarified, particularly if it causes confusion. I know there was a stage when this wasn't clear to me, now I think about it. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
