12.6.7 Legalizing Messages Without Recipient Header Lines (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 Administration Guide)

Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 Administration Guide

12.6.7 Legalizing Messages Without Recipient Header Lines

Keywords: missingrecipientpolicy

RFC 822 (Internet) messages are required to contain recipient header lines: To:, Cc:, or Bcc: header lines. A message without such header lines is illegal. Nevertheless, some broken user agents and mailers (for example, many older versions of sendmail) emit illegal messages.

The missingrecipientpolicy keyword takes an integer value specifying the approach to use for such messages; the default value, if the keyword is not explicitly present, is 1 (pass the illegal message through unchanged).

Table 12–25 missingrecipientpolicy Values


Value	Action
0	Use the current best practice per RFC 2822 recommendation. This is currently equivalent to value 1..
1	Pass the illegal message through unchanged.
2	Place envelope To: recipients in a `To:` header line.
3	Place all envelope To: recipients in a single `Bcc:` header line.
4	Generate a group construct (for example, “;”) `To:` header line, “To: Recipients not specified: ;”
5	Generate a blank `Bcc:` header line.
6	Reject the message.

Note that the MISSING_RECIPIENT_POLICY option can be used to set an MTA system default for this behavior. The initial Messaging Server configuration sets MISSING_RECIPIENT_POLICY to 1.