Re: [exim] Heads up?

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Matthias Waffenschmidt
CC: Exim users list
Subject: Re: [exim] Heads up?
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Matthias Waffenschmidt wrote:
>
> Some legimate mails that are not delivery status reports are sent with
> an empty return path. E.g. RIPE sends such mails to notify people when
> there was a change to the RIPE database. I tried to figure out that
> this is a bad idea and non-RFC-compliant behaviour, but unfortunately
> they did not see point...


It is a bad idea (because of the increasing number of sites that reject <>
outright or in a sophisticated manner) but sadly the RFCs do not restrict
<> to DSNs.

Tony.
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