This is _not_ an IMail problem. This is a user-configurable setting.
If mail from <> is bouncing that means the admin of that site has chosen to
enable that setting. (It might be the default, but I'm pretty sure it's
not.)
--Adam
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:41:10PM -0600, Ronny Haryanto wrote:
> On 01-Feb-2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I'm just wondering if
> > >
> > > MAIL FROM: <>
> > >
> > > in SMTP session is valid or not? From what I understand is that qmail
> >
> > Yes it's valid, it's actually even the required sender of a bounce.
>
> Hi Peter, thanks for your response. I thought I saw an RFC about this,
> but I can't recall which.
>
> > > I have contacted a rep from IMail, but no response. Here's the
> > > website: http://www.ipswitch.com/products/IMail_Server/index.asp
> >
> > It's ipswitch. It ends with .asp. I'm not touching that with a forty-foot
> > pole (no don't start a holy war on me now :)
>
> Hmm. Apparently they fixed it(?) in their new version of IMail:
>
> [~]$ host -t mx ipswitch.com
> ipswitch.com mail is handled (pri=10) by imail.ipswitch.com
> ipswitch.com mail is handled (pri=50) by alpha.ipswitch.com
> [~]$ telnet imail.ipswitch.com 25
> Trying 156.21.1.5...
> Connected to imail.ipswitch.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server imail.ipswitch.com (IMail 6.00 124210-1)
> helo blah
> 250 hello imail.ipswitch.com
> mail from: <>
> 250 ok
> quit
> 221 Goodbye
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Oh well.. *shrug*..
>
> --
> Ronny Haryanto
>
