[ On Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at 20:43:22 (+0200), Nico Erfurth wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] conditionally rejecting <> sender
>
> Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at 17:16:28 (+0100), Philip Hazel wrote: ]
> >
> >>Subject: RE: [Exim] conditionally rejecting <> sender
> >>
> >>There are cases that will break:
> >>
> >>1. If you use an Exim filter, you can use commands like
> >>
> >> mail to "a@b, x@y"
> >>
> >>to create messages with multiple recipients, but NULL senders.
> >
> > Such a filter is broken by design! ;-)
>
> Why?
> It prevents generated messages to be bounced and generate a message and
> generate a message and ... :)
Because an author of such a filter really doesn't have any business
using empty sender addresses. Exim _SHOULD_ make this impossible and
it's sad that it doesn't.
Empty sender addresses have a very specific and singular purpose in the
SMTP protoco and they should not ever be abused in this way. Such
abusers get what they deserve (i.e. broken mailer configs).
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