On Wednesday 18 October 2006 20:37, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > Unfortunately, "<>" is not recognised as the "empty sender" by our > > sendmail implementation. Instead, it expects "" (which looks a lot more > > logical to me, too, given that < and > may not be part of an email > > address which is what is expected to come after the -f). > > then it's not a Sendmail compatible interface, and you should report the > bug to your MTA provider. plenty of software will expect this to work. > the <> are optional around an address.
AFAIR supporting the empty sender aka <> is mandatory for MTAs, e.g. for sending bounces. I do not have the RFCs at hand right now, so I cannot look for it. So sorry for the fuzzy pointer.
