At 10:52 AM -0400 6/5/03, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
The "FROM" field is the one that will get C/R checked, since that is
the mailbox that sent the email. Additionally, the "MAIL FROM"
addresses that is used in SMTP is not intended to this purpose,
rather it indicates a mailbox to which errors should be sent to. It
is perfectly legal and sometimes even recommended in RFC 2821 to use
<> for the MAIL FROM.
Are you advocating that C/R systems send mail to the From: address
rather than MAIL FROM? That strikes me as exceedingly wrong. MAIL
FROM is for notification of delivery problems--and that's exactly
what C/R is. Furthermore, we've seen on this list what happens when
a C/R system sends to From: instead of MAIL FROM--everyone who posts
to the list gets challenged by the person who forgot to whitelist the
mailing list. This is the "On Vacation" message problem all over
again.
--
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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