Thu, 28 Aug 1997 12:15:52 -0400
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:05:56 MDT, you said:
> Mostly sites seem to be using this to tell where mail comes from
> exclusively. If it doesn't resolve (as in the case of a blank) then it
> doesn't get there.
Supporting MAIL FROM:<> is *REQUIRED* by RFC1123, section 5.2.9. This
is a clarification of RFC821, section 4.1.2. It's how mail daemons
send back errors in a way guaranteed not to loop (think about if it
came back with a non-null MAIL FROM - you could get two mailer daemons
sending each other error messages).
I've gotten sufficiently fed up with sites that are that unclued that
I'm in the process of writing auto-flame scripts for Procmail to deal
with it when Listserv sends me the bounce message.
I would suspect that mail from a list always has the MAIL FROM: set,
but mail that has 'From: listserv@hostname' in the RFC822 headers will
go out with a null MAIL FROM. However, Eric or Nathan is free to
correct me on this ;)
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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