[10282] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.4H: rmail and sendmail and "no recipients"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hoffmann@MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 14 16:56:20 1993
From: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 93 16:56:16 -0500
To: jik@Aktis.COM
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Jonathan I. Kamens"'s message of Sun, 14 Feb 93 16:40:28 -0500 <9302142140.AA06997@pad-thai.aktis.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 93 16:40:28 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@Aktis.COM>
Sender: jik@Aktis.COM
From: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 93 11:15:18 EST
What should have happened:
...
Second, the mailer should have returned the message as
undeliverable.
Why? The message was delivered successfully to all specified
recipients.
(In other words, it is not entirely obvious that it is an error for a
message to have no specified recipients.)
I don't have my RFC handy, but I'm pretty sure it's a violation
of 822 to have a message with no recipients. That being the
case, the message should have been returned to the sender.
-Ron
