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bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
| I think that most mail users and administrators would agree that
| unreplyable From: or Reply-To: lines are Wrong.  Why is there no
| stronger and more specific prohibition?

kre@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Robert Elz) writes:
| to rreturn it.  Even if the recipient can't just "reply", he may know
| a working return address, it would seem better to deliver the mail than
| just drop it on the floor, mandating validation of the From: would
| make this illegal.

  I think we'd best be carefull to make the punishment match the crime here!
The mail router I use often flags unreplyable from addresses and sends
warning messages to the sender, in cases where it can detect a syntactic
or semantic error.
  This helps a lot, since the single most common complaint I recieve as
postmaster is one of the form "why did you send me that error message? I
typed ``reply'' so I know the address is right."

  It does **not** refuse to deliver the message.

--dave
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