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- Subject: Handling broken From:-addrs with PMDF-MR
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- From: Bob Tinkelman <bob@camb.com>
- Date: 09 Oct 1992 17:10:08 -0400 (EDT)
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- Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.
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- It appears that the way I have configured PMDF-MR it bounces messages which
- arrive from the Internet with invalid From:-headers (at least those ones
- with syntax errors, given the attached example). Is this something that's
- hardwired into PMDF-MR, or is it something that I control with
- configuration options? [I didn't attach my to_mr.txt file, but could send
- it to you if it turns out I broke something there.]
-
- I can see a number of possible courses of action when msgs are received with
- invalid From-addrs:
-
- 1. Bounce the message. [I guess this sounds like the safest, but it seems
- violate the ``be liberal in what you accept'' philosophy.]
- 2. Pass the message, mapping the From:-addr to something that will reverse
- map back (when a REPLY is done) to the same (invalid) address.
- 3. Pass the message, translating the From:-addr into one that is
- syntactically correct, but (admittedly) has little chance of being
- a symantic equivalent, with a warning msg (of course) that this has
- happened. [This seems like a very bad idea to me.]
- 4. Send the message on as an `enclosure' in a msg from the postmaster,
- with a note of what the problem was. [This is what I'd do manually
- today, if I had the time...]
-
- If I had all the above choices available, I think I'd choose 2.
- ---
- Bob Tinkelman <bob@camb.com>
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