Scott,
Thanks an please bear with me. What is or are RFCs?
Ed Chabot
The Marlin Firearms Company
100 Kenna Drive
North Haven, CT 06473
(203)985-3254
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 1:13 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Bogus mail message
> >We've been getting the following for 2 days now. What's going on? Any
help
> >is appreciated.
>
>This isn't your problem; datasilk.com is broken.
>
> >08:07 20:32 SMTP-(0000010E) >MAIL FROM:<>
> >08:07 20:32 SMTP-(0000010E) 501 bogus mail from
>
>This means that you sent them an E-mail with a return address of "<>" (most
>likely, they sent an E-mail to an invalid account on your server, and they
>are getting the bounce message). They set up their server not to accept
>mail from "<>", which violates the RFCs.
>
>This is why some people are using http://www.rfc-ignorant.org , which lists
>mail servers that are broken like this (and that don't have valid
>postmaster addresses, and a few others).
-Scott
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