Re: Confusion about allowing missing MAIL FROM

[email protected] ("Peter J. Holzer")
Newsgroups perl.qpsmtpd
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

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