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Re: [ietf-smtp] ietf.org SMTP server "RFC2821 Violation" for EHLO ip-literal.

2019-12-15 06:18:11
On 15/12/2019 11:42, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
The reason why SMTP requires to accept such stuff, AFAIUI, is to allow a 
broken
server to still be able to do its job.  Is it so?  Compare that to, e.g., 
DANE,
where a certificate error can shut a server up.

It was so, back in the days when mailservers were few and trustworthy
and before spammers and marketers arrived.

Now, it's a flag for a system that the operator cannot be bothered to
set up properly, or was never supposed to be sending mail at all
(and has been hijacked).

-- 
Cheers,
  Jeremy

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