On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Charlie Brady wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Robert Spier wrote:
Suggestion is not to accept addresses without <> in mail() and rcpt().
We shouldn't do that unless some other major mailer is doing it.
Otherwise it will bite us.
Addresses without <> are not valid SMTP.
I think that mailfront requires <>. I've never noticed any breakage, except
that I needed to learn to use <> when testing in telnet.
This concept was discussed before. It was noted that even though
it was not valid SMTP, addresses without <> were accepted because that's
what qmail-smtpd did.
My only worry with making it stricter is whether or not any major
MTAs do not use <>, because we'd be dropping a lot of otherwise legitimate
email, which would be unacceptable to our clients.
