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Tony Hoyle wrote: > David Somers wrote: >> >> BTW, there is normally a space between the : and the < in the RCPT TO: >> <blah...> and MAIL TO: <blah...> so maybe your server was getting >> confused because you didn't have one. >> >> If all else fails, a config option for this sounds good. >> >> > Hmm.. the RFC has no space. Eeks. It does. (Its been ages since I read it.) BTW, a lot of examples I've seen elsewhere have a space in there (e.g. O'Reilly's Programming Internet Email!) > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt > > It also says that the <> is mandatory although I've never seen it until > you mentioned it... I think a lot of MTAs try to cope with or without it... just my like I'm running courier-mta which is very anal when it comes to following the specs and rejecting non-compliant messages (although a lot of spam bots send badly formed messages so it quite happily rejects those even before my spamfilters see them). David.