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Re: Antigen found =*.pif file



On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:41:42PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:24:51 -0600
> "Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com> wrote:
> > I don't think that declaring something which complies with RFC
> > 2821/2822(the core SMTP-based email RFCs) is a good idea. The message
> > should not have left the remote server without a qualified domain, but
> > this is a bug in *their* implementation, *not* in the receiving MTA.
> > 
> > Please do more research into the standards before making such a claim
> > next
> 
> Have you done yours? Quoting from RFC 2822:
>    "In all cases, the "From:" field SHOULD NOT contain any mailbox that
>    does not belong to the author(s) of the message."

Are we talking about From:, or From_? Only the former is specified in 2822,
the latter is from 2821 (which has no such specification, AFAICT).

Rewriting the From: header is, indeed, not good; I was under the impression
that we were, however, seeing From_ rewritten.
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