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Author: Marc Haber
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Subject: Re: [exim] Blank From
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:39:22 -0500, Marc Sherman
<msherman@???> wrote:
>Marc Haber wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Yeah... you were. I'm glad you weren't the Debian exim maintainer back
>when I was first learning this stuff and filed 84860.


Nice bug. I wouldn't have answered any different, probably.

>Maybe this needs to be in the FAQ or the Wiki so we can just reply with
>a URL next time someone asks it? It seems to come up pretty frequently.


I'll be damned if there weren't truckloads of FAQs for that available
already, one of them being
http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/nullenvelope.txt

Greetings
Marc

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