True. It is technically possible not to accept mail from "<>". Just as it is technically possible to run an open relay, and technically possible to spam people and technically possible to hack into servers on the Internet.> >Wont the <> sender open relay up for spammers? > > No. > > You've got to accept mail from "<>", it's that simple. :)Well, you don't *have* to. You can disable it.
The RFCs are the "rules of the Internet". Although no law says you have to follow them, and you likely won't get kicked off the Internet for disobeying them, you can't expect that things will work if you don't follow them. If nobody follows them, nobody can communicate.What is the point of the rfc anyway
Someone (you?) mentioned that here before, but that's irrelevant. There are thousands of programs that rely on those RFCs, and if you want to create a new RFC, go for it. Otherwise, you can just accept that that is the way that it works. :)-- I mean it's an out-dated recommendation -- it may have, at one point in the mid 80's (when the RFC was originally drafted) to perhaps as late as the mid 90's represented the "Best Practice", but certainly no longer. No one should be sending email with an empty <>. That's the simple part.
-Scott
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