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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Jan 4 10:54:48 2008
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:51:15 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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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 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?
~Seth
