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

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Author: David Brodbeck
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Subject: RE: [exim] rfc-ignorant.org - auto reporting those who
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Gran [mailto:steve@lobefin.net]
> > Yes, but the previous poster was arguing that it only
> happened if you
> > rejected all mail from <>. This site was only rejecting mail to the
> > postmaster with a null sender; other addresses accepted
> null sender mail. I
> > don't want to get into the argument about whether that's a
> proper thing to
> > do or not, but it's just not true that rfc-ignorant is
> particularly strict
> > about what evidence they accept.
>
> No, this is the output of a pipelined session - there is no 250 after
> mail from:, so the 550 is for mail from:, not rcpt to:. They are
> rejecting on a null envelope sender, not a combination of
> null envelope
> sender and rcpt to postmaster.
>
> You may be correct that this site only does that for postmaster, but I
> can't see that in the output above.


That's my error. I was typing from memory, not cutting and pasting from an
actual session.