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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, [iso-8859-1] Roelof Naud? wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can someone explain the following error:
>
> 1999-10-18 10:36:34 11d8HF-0005JE-00 rejected from kendy.up.ac.za
> [137.215.101.101] <oavdwest@???>: syntax error in 'To' header:
> missing or malformed local part (expected word or "<"): failing address is:
> UP Thrip Interest Group
>
> According to the remote server admin, the to header is part of the data of a
> message and should not be checked. The rcpt is correct.
The remote server admin is wrong. You can see the To: header below, and
if you check RFC-822, you will find that "UP Thrip Interest Group" does
not qualify as a valid email address.
I'm assuming its the remote MTA sending that header - probably
generated by the MUA - becuase its using some sort of 'distrubution
list' - what is *should* be doing, is putting an empty Bcc, and not
putting a To: header at all
One way that you _can_ put data in an address header and still maintain
RFC-822 compliance is to add ": ;" at the end.. For instance:
To: UP Thrip Interest Group : ;
It used to be when everyone on the Internet trusted everone else
(before the spammers came) that RFC-822 validation of headers was
unecessary and this type of message didn't cause a problem. Those days
are long gone.
> Below is the full log entry.
>
> Recipients: roelf.van.den.heever@???
> P Received: from kendy.up.ac.za ([137.215.101.101])
> by ns.epiuse.com with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #3)
> id 11d8HF-0005JE-00
> for roelf.van.den.heever@???; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:36:34 +0200
> P Received: from [137.215.106.196] (helo=oavdwest.up.ac.za)
> by kendy.up.ac.za with smtp (Exim 2.10 #4)
> id 11d8El-0004gD-00; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:33:47 +0200
> Comments: Authenticated sender is <oavdwest@???>
> F From: "Andre van der Westhuysen" <oavdwest@???>
> T To: UP Thrip Interest Group
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:33:51 +0000
> X-Distribution: Moderate
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
> Subject: Lys van Thrip projekte in "Tukkie"
> R Reply-to: oavdwest@???
> C CC: JOLIVIER@CCNET,
> ZENDA@CCNET
> Priority: normal
> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1)
> I Message-Id: <E11d8El-0004gD-00@???>
> * X-rewrote-recipient: roelf.van.den.heever@???
>
>
> Regards
> Roelof
>
>
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