On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:02:27 +0000, Nigel Metheringham
<Nigel.Metheringham@???> wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:06 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Second: Exim will not accept a blank envelope sender by default
>
>Umm Marc, did you *mean* to write that?
Yes.
|[1/499]mh@torres:~$ telnet localhost 25
|Trying 127.0.0.1...
|Connected to localhost.
|Escape character is '^]'.
|220 torres.int.l21.ma.zugschlus.de ESMTP Exim 4.50 Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:46:13 +0100
|ehlo localhost
|250-torres.int.l21.ma.zugschlus.de Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
|250-SIZE 20971520
|250-PIPELINING
|250-STARTTLS
|250 HELP
|MAIL FROM:
|501 MAIL must have an address operand
|MAIL FROM: <>
|250 OK
|quit
|221 torres.int.l21.ma.zugschlus.de closing connection
|Connection closed by foreign host.
|[2/500]mh@torres:~$
So, it won't accept a blank envelope sender since that's syntactically
invalid, but it will happily take <> as envelope sender.
I was just being mean to the OP.
Greetings
Marc
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