Re: [off topic] Mail with no destination?

[Art Lemasters <frnmo@sofnet.com>]

Bill said:
> I am assuming that there must still be enough 'broken' mail
> servers "out there" that it is still possible to move mail that
> is not RFC compliant but I am totally mystified as to how a
> message that has no destination can be forwarded by any mail
> server!?
> 
> Has anyone else seen anything like this (ie:  No destination
> header at all)?

     I received a spam ad that bragged about the same thing
you saw, but there _was_ a source IP address.  It would be
fun to have a script to automate the process of tracing,
WAIS-ing and bouncing such mail. 

     ...remember the time someone on the list sent us a
mail that was *to our domain root and from our domain root*
(back around Feb or Mar when we were tangling with smail
"From" headers)?  Now that was a class act! ;-)

Art

> 
> -- 
> best,
> -bill
>                 bleach@BellSouth.net
>            b.leach@usa.net  LinuxPC@Hotmail.com
> from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign:
> "The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft!"
>          See!  They do get some things right!
> 
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