On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 03:36:50PM -0500, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 01:47:22PM -0600, 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?
>
> That's not the point. Giving the user an option to break the RFC is not the
> same as breaking the RFC.
Indeed.
What IMail does wrong is allowing the user to do so with one click of the
mouse. qmail can be configured to break lots of RFCs, that's not even hard.
But nothing that can happen 'incidentally'.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
|
| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
