Re: [Exim] RFC 2821 and "headers_sender_verify"/"headers_che…

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Auteur: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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Aan: Frank Elsner
CC: exim-users, Mate Wierdl
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] RFC 2821 and "headers_sender_verify"/"headers_checks_fail"
* [Frank Elsner on 14/05/01 13:23 +0200]

> Currently I have
>                     headers_sender_verify = yes
>                     headers_checks_fail = yes
> and a now list owner complains about refused messages with unresolvable 
> domain in the "From: " line of a messages sent via his mailing list.


RFCs were not invented to be read by morons, as someone said. You are
perfectly free to reject mail from unresolvable domains, and this guy is
nitpicking.

>    When RFC 822 format [7, 32] is being used, the mail data include the
>    memo header items such as Date, Subject, To, Cc, From.  Server SMTP
>    systems SHOULD NOT reject messages based on perceived defects in the


He's confusing the header from with the envelope from, which is what exim
filters on.

> Is my setting "illegal" ?


No.

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