[101436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP addresses in <>
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Jan 4 11:11:28 2008
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:09:16 -0500
From: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <477E55F3.4040603@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 4, 2008 10:51 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> Our mail servers reject connections that don't follow the RFC. Am I
> wrong to do this?
Seth,
RFC 1122 (Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers)
section 1.2.2 (Robustness Principle):
"Be liberal in what you accept, and
conservative in what you send"
Regards.
Bill Herrin
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