On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:41:48 +0100 (BST) Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Phil Chambers wrote: > > > This illustrates an example of the old maxim of being liberal in what you > > accept and strict in what you send. It is a maxim that I am now very much > > opposed to. > > Me too. Nevertheless, I have implemented code that follows the maxim, > because if you don't, too many things break. > > > Have you done any tests to see if rejecting spaces between : and < will > > block > > many non-spam mail software and have you any idea when your patch may be > > available? > > Even if such a rejection helps, it won't help for long; the spammers > will react. Indeed, but I was more concerned about rejecting messages from non-compliant, but honest mail servers, which is not what I want. If there are a lot of mail servers which put in a space I would not be able to use Tony's patch to address my problem. I am not wanting to block non-ascii addresses in order to cut down on spam particularly. I am delivering to the Cyrus package and that rejects non-ascii, so I want to be more consistent and reject up front what I know will be rejected later. Phil. --------------------------------------- Phil Chambers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) University of Exeter -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
