Re: funky from address

From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net>
Date: Fri Jul 30 2004 - 07:30:34 AKDT

On 7/30/2004 7:08 AM, Barsalou wrote:

> I was looking through my e-mail logs and saw an from entry that looks
> like this:
>
> from=<>
>
> Is there an internal program that would specifically set the from
> address in this way? How can I stop that from happening? I am using
> sendmail.

By RFC 2821, this is a Delivery Status Notification address, which must
be supported. See Section 4.5.5.

        http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

For another good explanation, see

        http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-dsn.php

-royce

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