North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: SMTP addresses in <>
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:51:15 PST, Seth Mattinen said: > > I'm having a bit of an argument with a customer over the command syntax > in RFC 2821 that shows command arguments for MAIL/RCPT commands in > brackets, i.e.: > > Path = "<" [ A-d-l ":" ] Mailbox ">" > Mailbox = Local-part "@" Domain > > 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 best reason I've come up with for rejecting mail from software so totally brain-dead that they can't get the < > around an address right is this: If they botch this, they've probably botched a bunch of other stuff, and accepting mail from them is almost certain to lead to grief once you send the '250 OK' after DATA. If they couldn't get < > *around* the address in the MAIL FROM:, what makes you think the address is valid? Where does any ensuing bounce end up? And more importantly, can you find out what crapware is that brain-dead and let us know, so that those of us who believe in enforcing standards can shun it? :) Attachment:
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