[69249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SMTP behavior: 553 5.5.2 Bad command format(h)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Thu Apr 1 03:26:57 2004
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:23:53 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk>
To: Miguel Mata-Cardona <mmata@intercom.com.sv>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <406AFCF9.11416.1B7FA71F@localhost>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed Mar 31, 2004 at 05:16:41PM -0600, Miguel Mata-Cardona wrote:
> WTF? can anyone please explain me why must I enclose my
> address between the "<>"?
Because the RFC says you should. Even back in RFC821 this was the
case:
MAIL <SP> FROM:<reverse-path> <CRLF>
<reverse-path> ::= <path>
<path> ::= "<" [ <a-d-l> ":" ] <mailbox> ">"
Simon
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