On 2025-01-25 at 13:36:52 UTC-0500 (Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:36:52 +0100) Carsten Schiefner via mailop <[email protected]> is rumored to have said:
> Dear all - > > my understanding of section 2.3. "Body" of RFC 5322 "Internet Message Format" > (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322#section-2.3) is that a sole > 0x0a as the body is sufficient and fully RFC compliant: is this correct? Yes. > Reason why I am asking is that have come across a strange behaviour of the > iOS 16.7.10 Mail App: an email with an empty body - i.e. with just a sole > 0x0a - will briefly pop up in the overview and then quickly disappears again. > If it shows up at all... > > Only an email with an an empty body of two 0x0a's stays displayed in the > overview window. As consequently as consistently the iOS Mail App sends its > empty body emails with two 0x0a's. 2 or 3? By which I mean, the header block ends with 2 consecutive linebreaks. The body starts after the second 0x0A. > So my question reads: Is this behaviour a fault? Not a fault as within the > specs? indifferent, so not to be decided? Indifferent. a MUA sending empty mail is being used by someone not worth communicating with. OK, maybe that's a little harsh, but empty mail is rude. -- Bill Cole _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
