RE: [exim] rfc-ignorant.org - auto reporting those who

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Author: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Date:  
To: David Brodbeck
CC: Exim User's Mailing List
Subject: RE: [exim] rfc-ignorant.org - auto reporting those who
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 09:13 -0400, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > From: Stephen Gran [mailto:steve@lobefin.net]
>
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:58:54AM -0400, David Brodbeck said:
> > > Sure about that? I saw an example of one host that was
> > permanently listed
> > > in rfc-ignorant for a sequence like this:
> > >
> > > EHLO host.domain.com
> > > 250 OK
> > > MAIL FROM:<>
> > > RCPT TO:<postmaster@yourdomain>
> > > 550 Rejected; use a real MAIL FROM address.
> > >
> >
> > Are you reading what you wrote? They are rejecting on mail from:<>,
> > which is a legitimate reason to be listed in dsn.rfc-ignorant.
>
> Yes, but the previous poster was arguing that it only happened if you
> rejected all mail from <>.


hint: if you tried that sequence of commands with Exim, you'd get

554 SMTP synchronization error

a behaviour you can't turn off, as far as I know. (notice that the EHLO
didn't report the PIPELINING extension.)

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Kjetil T.