Did You Know - An Email Body Is Optional
[Did You Know]
The other day while working with one of our internal libraries for sending email, I ran into an error where it complained about a missing body.
I was curious to see if the specification for electronic mail had any such restrictions.
So I looked for the appropriate RFC - 2882
It turns out that indeed, the body of an email is optional
Here is the relevant passage:
Where would you use an email without a body?
A common use case is a scenario where the email’s purpose is purely to send one or more attachments, in which case you don’t need a body.
Happy hacking!