On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Ronny Haryanto wrote:
> On 01-Feb-2000, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > 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.)
>
> But if <> is valid, what is the reason to make this behaviour
> user-configurable in the first place? In other words, when is <> not
> valid?
It is being blocked because some SPAMers took advantage of the fact that
the RFCs require bounce messages to use the <> envelope sender for error
messages. It should NEVER be blocked, period. If a spammer is sending
email with an <> envelope sender, block their IP.
>
> --
> Ronny Haryanto
>
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