> -----Original Message----- > From: Danny Angus [mailto:danny@;apache.org] > Sent: 22 October 2002 12:15 > To: James Developers List > Subject: RE: SMTP Handler > > > Jason, > > James does need well formed addresses, including incoming > ones, to route mail with, and the standards are quite clear > about what is and isnt acceptable. I expect we could accept a > wider variety than we do, but why would we?
The only once we've ever come across is missing the <> around the email addr. > Mail is pretty much wholly dependant on people following the > rules, and IMO if we don't alert them to errors on their part > we're guilty of conspiring to water down the standards. I'd > be happy enough if the standards were changed, but really not > happy to see a de-facto standard arise which is an > un-documented and moving target. I generally agree with you. It was just a comment from some of the Qmail people. > > James may well still be rejecting valid but unusual > addresses, we need'd really test cases for that though. > > What kind of problems have you been seeing? To be honest I've only normally seen this sort of behaviour for 2 reasons: 1) Badly written bulk mail tools 2) Me trying to send SMTP by hand ;-) > > d. > <snip'd> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:james-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:james-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
