[101439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP addresses in <>
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Fri Jan 4 11:26:15 2008
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:20:22 -0500
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <477E55F3.4040603@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:51:15AM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote:
[snip]
> 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?
"The" RFC is amusing WRT email. In this case, you are ignoring 3464,
section 2 "Format of a Delivery Status Notification", viz:
Whenever an SMTP transaction is used to send a DSN, the MAIL FROM
command MUST use a NULL return address, i.e., "MAIL FROM:<>".
Cheers,
Joe
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