Bill Landry: > I'm following a discussion on another list regarding a Communigate > gateway that is rejecting spoofed "MAIL FROM" before "RCPT TO" is > received.
This is perfectly legitimate usage of SMTP. Clients that cannot
handle this are broken.
Postfix's delayed "reject" works around broken clients, and gives
the server's administrator more information about what mail is
being rejected. However the delay is not required by SMTP.
Wietse
