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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:51:15AM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: [snip] > Our mail servers reject connections that don't follow the RFC. Am I > wrong to do this? This guy certainly thinks so, even after I've cited > the RFC and appropriate section, his arguments is "even hotmail does not > keep up the standards" and if we ignore them as well. Hotmail at least > follows this rule... am I wrong to require the brackets? "The" RFC is amusing WRT email. In this case, you are ignoring 3464, section 2 "Format of a Delivery Status Notification", viz: Whenever an SMTP transaction is used to send a DSN, the MAIL FROM command MUST use a NULL return address, i.e., "MAIL FROM:<>". Cheers, Joe -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE
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