RE: [EXIM] Unfortunate error

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Author: Oliver Smith
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To: Sheldon Hearn
CC: Exim Users List
Subject: RE: [EXIM] Unfortunate error
> > (Because my logs would indicate there
> > are a LOT of stupid users who mail the above To line).
>
> This is almost _certainly_ because www@??? is sending mail out with
> an invalid From or Reply-To field. Rather than trying to educate all
> your users, I'd recommend that you contant www@??? directly, making
> him / her aware of the problem.


Hmm - it isn't; I'm quite sure of that, being www@??? myself
(unfortunately I didn't write this between the lines, just actually on them
:).

What I was logging was a lot of mail that was making it all the way to the
kfs.org mail system, and then not getting in because of the above error.

The address people are using is:

To: www@??? <www@???>

As I said, I can, technically, see why it's not valid, but I can't see,
philisophically, why it's mandatorily invalid.

> > Again I can see why it's an error, but I'd prefer my mail system not
> > to be the one causing the headache (since these emails made it to me
> > and most of the other destination addresses).
>
> This sounds like a Very Bad Idea. Are all these people using the same
> (braindead?) mail client? If so, what is it? :-)


A certain company that was once the shield against Microsoft, but these days
is just a smaller emulation[1] of them. (If you guessed 'Sun', go to the
back of the classroom; Answer was 'Netscape' :)


Oliver
[1] (Except unlike an emulation, it usually doesn't run any of the
original's software :))


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