On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Bill Healy wrote:

>
> Just got done figuring out why I wasn't getting non delivery reports
> from some servers. In this case it was two different exchange servers I
> was sending e-mail to non existent accounts and I wasn't getting
> notified of the fact that the message couldn't be delivered. I did a
> network capture and found out that exchange was accepting the messages
> and then would connect back to xmail and try to send the non delivery
> report with MAIL FROM:<>
>
> I set AllowNullSender to 1 and now I get the returned messages. No
> telling how many messages my users have sent to exchange servers with
> typos in the To: address and didn't know they were not delivered.
>
> Don't know how many other servers accept messages to bad addresses and
> then service back a message to sender instead of rejecting the address
> when it's trying to be sent to the server as xmail does.

If you want your server to be 100% RFC compliant, AllowNullSender must be
set to 1



- Davide


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