On 21/06/2004 at 11:53:14, Lee Barton wrote:

> Thanks for that......It was turned on - This is used to block spammers
> though, so what are the implications of turning this off??

You'll be complying with Internet standards. :) Refusing null senders
generally doesn't block a great deal of spam, but it does qualify you
for listing at www.rfc-ignorant.org, as well as breaking legitimate
functionality like you noticed.

The null sender has been written into the specs since the beginning for
exactly this sort of stuff -- messages which come from automated
processes and must not be automatically responded to (for loop
prevention reasons). That includes all delivery status notifications
like read receipts and bounce messages.

Cheers,
Evan


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