Re: Confusion about allowing missing MAIL FROM
[email protected] ("Peter J. Holzer")
| Newsgroups | perl.qpsmtpd |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2010-10-11 20:34:10 -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > I saw something in my qpsmtpd.log this evening which struck me as > unusual. In one particular incoming message, the MAIL FROM was not > there. A quick telnet session reproducing it follows, followed by the > list of active plugins. > > I'm not aware of there being a good reason for allowing this behavior, > but I'd be happy to be told otherwise. > > Also, for what it's worth, I've tried this with and without > 'dont_require_anglebrackets' enabled, both resulting in the same > behavior. Ultimately, I'm curious if this is expected, or if I've found > a bug. > > Best regards, and thank you for the great program. > > -- log output -- > mail from: > 250 <>, sender OK - how exciting to get mail from you! IMO this is a bug. A completely missing reverse path (instead of the usual empty path <> for bounces) isn't allowed by RFC 5321 and I see no reason to be lenient in this case (at least unless dont_require_anglebrackets is enabled. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Openmoko has already embedded |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | voting system. | | | [email protected] | Named "If you want it -- write it" __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Ilja O. on [email protected]
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