>According to a dns scan I had made by dnsreport.com my mailserver, IMail
>7.0x should accept messages with an empty <> address because:
>
>ERROR: One or more of your mailservers does not accept mail from "<>".
>Mailservers are required by RFC1123 5.2.9 to accept mail from "<>". By
>refusing this mail, you will never get reject/bounce messages, or return
>receipts, and you may get other mail server admins upset at you if they
>have to deal with your bounce messages.
>ERROR: mailie.tio.nl's MAILFROM <> response: 501 bogus mail from .
>Is this a bug in the IMail code, did I make a configuration error or is
>the dnsreport in error?
The problem is that you selected "Reject NULL <> Senders" in the SMTP
Security options. Unfortunately, IMail still doesn't have a warning there,
making it clear that you breaking your mailserver by choosing that option.
>btw dnsreport.com seems to be down at the moment.
It's been up and down this morning for some reason -- it's about time to
kick the server to see if that helps. <G>
-Scott
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