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Aucbvax.4468 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Oct 15 23:01:51 1981 Re: No headers on wiz mail >From Hedberg@SUMEX-AIM Thu Oct 15 21:12:26 1981 It seems to me that sticking with RFC733 would solve many such problems. While RFC733 is not universal, it is very widely adhered to.

(From RFC733)

Standard for the Format of Text Messages 14 III. Syntax C. Messages

message = fields *( CRLF *text ) ; Everything after ; first null line ; is message body

Your mail reader need not display header lines it can't understand, but should continue searching for "From:" or "Date:" or whatever until it comes to the first null line. -------

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