On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:41:37AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:14:16PM +0200, I. Forbes wrote:
> > > mail from: spammer@???
> > > which generates the error:
> > > 550 rejected: administrative prohibition
> > I'd claim this is the wrong error.
> > I feel that should be generating a
> > <<< 501 MAIL syntax incorrect.
> I don't know about other MTAs, but Smail accepted that form (at the time
> I started writing Exim), which is why Exim accepts it.
I guess we can be nice to other people occasionally. I think the only thing
I've seen not sending an angle-bracketed address is some spamware, which is
why I think this.
MBM
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