On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

| On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:50:13 EST, you said:
| > So, you are sure that confirmation request emails are sent with a null From
| > header? I have not confirmed this.
|
| I can confirm it.  I see enough broken lame mailers that don't believe
| that RFC1123 says that you *must* support the SMTP 'MAIL FROM:<>' that
| I've set up a canned message to forward the bounced mail to the
| postmaster and the intended user, explaining *why* the person can't
| subscribe because their site is broken.
|

I just handled a complaint about listserv at a site running 1.8d on VM.
We're still running 1.8c on AIX, but I planning on transitioning this week
until I saw this problem.

The user sent a review to said listserv, it rejected his review and sent the
notification to his envelope from address, even though he correctly had a
from set in his headers. Did anyone notice this bust in the 1.8d production,
or is this some problem with non-RFC mail handling on VM? I think it's the
later.

I'm real excited about all the RFC violations in all those spiffy new NT MTAs
in addition to all the other currently broken MTA's.

I wish half the authors of MTA's would read _and_ implement the RFC's. Too
much to ask though.


-John