--On 6 February 2009 14:50:19 +0000 Jethro R Binks 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> (Although, the same argument is useable here as against greylisting and
> other techniques: once a critical mass of receiving servers implement
> these techniques, it will be worth the while of spammers to accomodate
> them, play by the rules, design better SMTP engines, in order to get
> their  mail past the techniques.  But I think we're a long way to go yet,
> and  there's probably a huge legacy of crap spammy SMTP clients out there
> that  are easily defeatable.).

Yes, but this isn't just about spam. It's also about not accepting emails 
with malformed address headers. Those addresses aren't just there to look 
pretty, they're used by MUAs and even MTAs to address replies. If the 
From:, To: or Cc: header is malformed, then the replies may also be 
malformed, or misdirected.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
x3148

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