On Thu, 14 May 2009, Dave Pooser wrote:
>
> > In the other hand we do callouts with a special
> > username (not <>) to avoid problems with servers rejecting bounces
>
> No matter your opinion on callouts, that is an epically bad idea. Imagine
> that you and I are both doing that, and I want to send you an email:
>
> You get an email from dave-exim@???
> Your server replies with a callback from foo@???
> My server sees an incoming message from foo@??? to
> dave-exim@??? and responds with a callout from bar@???
> Your server responds with a callout from foo@??? to
> bar@???....
>
Also, if the server being called out to does BATV,
the callout will fail if you don't use '<>' as the
callout originator (if you want to use non-null, you
either need to go through DATA, and get the 'From: '
address, OR transform the BATV'ized address back to
what it was originally).
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