From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 12:35:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13333 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:35:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13327 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.053 #18) id 0zi2ho-0005lk-00; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:35:32 +0000 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:35:32 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Chris Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Undeliverable: Re: The message was delivered with a warning. Message-ID: <19981123203532.A21735@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3659242C.22AA2D3A@uk.radan.com> <19981123122629.A8841@scientia.demon.co.uk> <19981123140140.A26843@palomine.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19981123140140.A26843@palomine.net> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.17i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Johnson wrote: > > As does this, from my server's reject log: > > > > 1998-11-23 12:01:14 0zhug5-0002BZ-00 rejected from punt-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.34]: no valid sender in message headers: return path is <> > > Recipients: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk > > > > Shit, they can't even get a valid address in the headers of bounce > > messages, so I doubt they'll ever stop this MIMESweeper crap. > > > The envelope sender of a bounce message is supposed to be blank (i.e > "return path is <>"). If your mail server rejects messages because of > a blank envelope, it's misconfigured (RFC 1123, 5.2.9). Or perhaps I > misunderstand what you're saying. perhaps you missed the word "headers" -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message