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Article #115Re: Mailer Standards
From: Oberman, Kevin
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 1990 08:28
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 1990 08:28
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In article <506@avcocan.UUCP>, bounder@avcocan.UUCP (Robert Story) writes... >Where can I find out about mail standards? I would specifically like to >know about RFC 822 and MHS. Is RFC 822 the standard that the Unix mail >system uses? Perhaps, this should be a new book from Nutshell! RFC 822 and RFC 1123 are the closest thing to standards that exist, but I've never seen a Unix(tm) mailer that follows it completely. Most notaable is the addition of fields to the header that violate the "standards". R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov (415) 422-6955 Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!ames!lll-winken!rogue.llnl.gov!oberman From: oberman@rogue.llnl.gov (Oberman, Kevin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Mailer Standards Message-ID: <55987@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 14 Apr 90 08:28:54 GMT Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: oberman@rogue.llnl.gov Followup-To: comp.mail.headers Distribution: na Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-Engineering Lines: 16