On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:28:40PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said: >> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
>>> As I know it, the receiving MX connects the regular MX for the >>> sender address to see if *that* is ready to receive mail. Works >>> beautifully if outbound != inbound. >> And sets the envolope sender to what in the probe? > <>, hopefully. Anything else is silly. Yes and no. An increasing number of sites refuse "bounces" (that is messages with null return-path) to some addresses that are known never to send mail. This breaks the procedure and is reacted by other sites by using a fixed "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" address, and mail to that address doesn't incur that check (but ends up in /dev/null or gets refused at DATA time). -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
