On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Marc Sherman wrote:
> >
> > Yeah - so it can break when confronted with BATV. :-/
> >
> > (I'm not a fan of sender verification, but if you do it, you need
> > to be prepared to fallback to a non-null mail_from.)
>
> How does BATV break with sender verification? The sender address will be
> BATV-encoded, and the probe will look exactly like a bounce, so it
> should succeed, right?
>
Most of the time, yes. But I occasionally see some mailing lists
and automated $foo that draw from the rfc-2822 headers, and not
the envelope.
It doesn't happen often, I'll admit :)
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