On 24 Sep 2004, at 18:18, Michael Holzt wrote:
Empty messages (no data at all) are irretrievably broken. There is no
diagnostic information available in the message (since there isn't one).
A message does not need "diagnostic information" to have a purpose. Everything related to mail transport (and _thats_ what the qpsmtpd core is about) is signalled outside of the message. A empty message might very well trigger some action at the recipient.
I'd like to hear a valid reason you actually want these messages. And a serious example of when you might, not just quoting RFCs again.
Honestly, the RFCs for mail have gone out of the window in many places. We're under constant attack, and qpsmtpd was created specifically to ease the burden of those attacks. In a war you don't follow the rules.
Matt.
