Scenarios

      This section presents complete scenarios of several types of SMTP
      sessions.

   A Typical SMTP Transaction Scenario

      This SMTP example shows mail sent by Smith at host USC-ISIF, to
      Jones, Green, and Brown at host BBN-UNIX.  Here we assume that
      host USC-ISIF contacts host BBN-UNIX directly.  The mail is
      accepted for Jones and Brown.  Green does not have a mailbox at
      host BBN-UNIX.

      -------------------------------------------------------------

         R: 220 BBN-UNIX.ARPA Simple Mail Transfer Service Ready
         S: HELO USC-ISIF.ARPA
         R: 250 BBN-UNIX.ARPA

         S: MAIL FROM:<Smith@USC-ISIF.ARPA>
         R: 250 OK

         S: RCPT TO:<Jones@BBN-UNIX.ARPA>
         R: 250 OK

         S: RCPT TO:<Green@BBN-UNIX.ARPA>
         R: 550 No such user here

         S: RCPT TO:<Brown@BBN-UNIX.ARPA>
         R: 250 OK

         S: DATA
         R: 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
         S: Blah blah blah...
         S: ...etc. etc. etc.
         S: .
         R: 250 OK

         S: QUIT
         R: 221 BBN-UNIX.ARPA Service closing transmission channel



   Relayed Mail Scenario

      -------------------------------------------------------------

         Step 1  --  Source Host to Relay Host

            R: 220 USC-ISIE.ARPA Simple Mail Transfer Service Ready
            S: HELO MIT-AI.ARPA
            R: 250 USC-ISIE.ARPA

            S: MAIL FROM:<JQP@MIT-AI.ARPA>
            R: 250 OK

            S: RCPT TO:<@USC-ISIE.ARPA:Jones@BBN-VAX.ARPA>
            R: 250 OK

            S: DATA
            R: 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
            S: Date: 2 Nov 81 22:33:44
            S: From: John Q. Public <JQP@MIT-AI.ARPA>
            S: Subject:  The Next Meeting of the Board
            S: To: Jones@BBN-Vax.ARPA
            S:
            S: Bill:
            S: The next meeting of the board of directors will be
            S: on Tuesday.
            S:                                              John.
            S: .
            R: 250 OK

            S: QUIT
            R: 221 USC-ISIE.ARPA Service closing transmission channel



         Step 2  --  Relay Host to Destination Host

            R: 220 BBN-VAX.ARPA Simple Mail Transfer Service Ready
            S: HELO USC-ISIE.ARPA
            R: 250 BBN-VAX.ARPA

            S: MAIL FROM:<@USC-ISIE.ARPA:JQP@MIT-AI.ARPA>
            R: 250 OK

            S: RCPT TO:<Jones@BBN-VAX.ARPA>
            R: 250 OK

            S: DATA
            R: 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
            S: Received: from MIT-AI.ARPA by USC-ISIE.ARPA ;
               2 Nov 81 22:40:10 UT
            S: Date: 2 Nov 81 22:33:44
            S: From: John Q. Public <JQP@MIT-AI.ARPA>
            S: Subject:  The Next Meeting of the Board
            S: To: Jones@BBN-Vax.ARPA
            S:
            S: Bill:
            S: The next meeting of the board of directors will be
            S: on Tuesday.
            S:                                              John.
            S: .
            R: 250 OK

            S: QUIT
            R: 221 USC-ISIE.ARPA Service closing transmission channel




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[2000 Oct 27]
lilac で試したところ

MAIL FROM:<>
250 Ok
RCPT TO:<t-kita@grape.plala.or.jp>
250 Ok
DATA
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
Subject: test6

From: kon
test6
.
250 Ok: queued as D33F57FEA

で送れた。

つまり，
HELO 無し，
MAIL FROM の中身無しでも。（もちろん適当に入れてもＯＫだった。）
# この場合，From ヘッダは無しで送信された。
# DATA の空行は，ヘッダと本文のセパレータなので，
# From: kon は本文となる。

From ヘッダが無い場合は MAIL FROM の中身が代わりに使われるようだ。
To ヘッダが無くても RCPT TO が代わりに使われることはないようだが。

一般に普及しているメールソフトでは
MAIL FROM は何を入れているのか？