Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders --good ;-)

2004-01-28 Thread Theodore Knab
I am happy that the protocol is so simple. If it was not for the RFC's, which do not work that well in modern times where would we work ? SMTP has been around for a very long time: "The SMTP specification originally started with the Mail Transfer Protocol in 1980, evolved into Si

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders --good ;-)

2004-01-28 Thread Theodore Knab
I am happy that the protocol is so simple. If it was not for the RFC's, which do not work that well in modern times where would we work ? SMTP has been around for a very long time: "The SMTP specification originally started with the Mail Transfer Protocol in 1980, evolved into Si

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 28, 2004 12:48 pm, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: > My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders > ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to > main.cf the line Bounces are sent fro

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 28, 2004 12:48 pm, Tomàs Núñez Lirola wrote: > My smtp server (postfix) was receiving a lot of mails with empty senders > ("mail from:<>"), and it sends them as they was from > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I want to change this behaviour, so I added to > main.cf the line Bounces are sent fro

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis
It is an RFC requirement to accept <> as a valid MAIL FROM -- almost all bounce messages use this as well as certain other circumstances, to indicate they do not wish to receive a bounce message in the event of a delivery error. I don't even think that postfix allows it to be turned off at al

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Mi, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:48:54 +0100, TomÃs NÃÃez Lirola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > RTFM'ing, I don't find any more option to reject this kind of senders, so I > don't know what to do... > Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me? You must not reject messages with an empty e

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Loftis
It is an RFC requirement to accept <> as a valid MAIL FROM -- almost all bounce messages use this as well as certain other circumstances, to indicate they do not wish to receive a bounce message in the event of a delivery error. I don't even think that postfix allows it to be turned off at al

Re: Postfix doesn't reject empty senders

2004-01-28 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Mi, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:48:54 +0100, TomÃs NÃÃez Lirola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > RTFM'ing, I don't find any more option to reject this kind of senders, so I > don't know what to do... > Am I doing anything wrong? Can anyone please help me? You must not reject messages with an empty en