[Nmh-workers] Fwd: RFC 6854 on Update to Internet Message Format to Allow Group Syntax in the "From:" and "Sender:" Header Fields

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

Well isn't this just special ...

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> Subject: RFC 6854 on Update to Internet Message Format to Allow Group Syntax 
> in the "From:" and "Sender:" Header Fields
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>        RFC 6854
> 
>        Title:      Update to Internet Message Format 
>                    to Allow Group Syntax in the 
>                    "From:" and "Sender:" Header Fields 
>        Author:     B. Leiba
>        Status:     Standards Track
>        Stream:     IETF
>        Date:       March 2013
>        Mailbox:    address@hidden
>        Pages:      9
>        Characters: 20190
>        Updates:    RFC5322
> 
>        I-D Tag:    draft-leiba-5322upd-from-group-09.txt
> 
>        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6854.txt
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> The Internet Message Format (RFC 5322) allows "group" syntax in some
> email header fields, such as "To:" and "CC:", but not in "From:" or
> "Sender:".  This document updates RFC 5322 to relax that restriction,
> allowing group syntax in those latter fields, as well as in
> "Resent-From:" and "Resent-Sender:", in certain situations.
> 
> This is now a Proposed Standard.
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