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Author: David Woodhouse
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To: Richard Welty
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] About this list
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 10:51 -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
> [1] back in the bad old days, there were certain mailers that would
> ignore the setting of MAIL FROM: in the smtp envelope and send
> replies to something that they dug out of the headers, which was
> often reply-to.


Bizarre though it may seem, I've actually witnessed this utterly broken
behaviour _advocated_ quite recently :)

> the danger isn't over yet. it probably never will be as long as there
> are morons writing and deploying MTAs.


:)

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