On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Phil \(Medway Hosting\) wrote: > > And the other reason is that you may make that check conditional on the > > rcpt being processedn: checks on mail to your postmaster and abuse > > addresses will typically be more lenient than for other arbitrary > > recipients, for example so that you can still communicate with a > > misbehaving sending site. > > If the sending server is "misbehaving" - why would you want to accept > messages from an invalid sender ? It's up to THEM to send from a valid > address - not up to you to accept from anything.
I suppose it wasn't clear that I intended to speak more generally of checks at rcpt time vs mail time, rather than specifically on the issue of checking the sender address validity. I shouldn't have said "that check", but probably used "such checks". Perhaps the use of "misbehaving" was ill-advised too, substitute "problematic" instead. Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
