Re: that virus thing....

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:38:29 +0000

matti.aarnio@zmailer.org said:
> No. It means the real message originator, invisible because that
> system apparently does not retain Received: headers, sent out:
> From: <Administrator>
> and VGER was the first machine receiving it, and following the letter
> of RFC 822 about fully-qualified addresses in visible headers, and
> qualified a non-qualified one...

It's too early in the morning for reading RFCs. Does RFC2822 say you should
add your own domain to unqualified addresses in non-local mail, or just
say that unqualified addresses aren't legal?

If the latter, rejecting the offending mail would seem more appropriate
than adding '@vger.kernel.org' to it.

Might also be useful to stop any mail with null reverse-path from getting
to the list - or do we already do that and the ones that slipped through
couldn't even get that right?

--
dwmw2




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