On 10/13/10 5:54 PM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > 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. >
dont_require_anglebrackets is enabled, but I've reproduced it with it disabled as well. Regards, -- Glen Barber
