At 11:03 08-12-2012, Bill Cole wrote:
If that sentence is not mis-worded, it is a declaration of ignorance
of important fundamental facts about how email works. RFC5321 is
required reading for anyone who wants
The sentence is likely incorrectly phrased.
There are many strong arguments for mail systems to refrain from
attempting to require strict compliance to many details of the SMTP
and email format standards, but it is unhelpful to assume that
historically or even currently widespread forbearance of operational
enforcement of some facet of the standards grants any sort of
validity to non-compliant messages.
Yes.
Regards,
-sm
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