Re: Negotiated noncompliance
Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> Wed, 23 August 2000 16:35 UTC
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From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
To: Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Negotiated noncompliance
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:36:04 +0100 (BST) From: Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0008231623380.6317-100000@draco.cus.cam.ac.uk> | . Space character(s) after MAIL FROM: or RCPT TO: | . Local parts containing null components or having dots at either end. Those ones I'd be willing to simply include as legal in the first place. I never really understood the dot rule (why they had to be treated so magically, rather than just being another legal character, in local parts, I suspect it just made the grammar easier, rather than being expressly designed, but I am guessing). But I believe that some others believe that this is actually important for some reason (maybe some MTA actually enforces that rule?) The spaces I think are totally harmless. | . Multiple pairs of <> e.g. MAIL FROM:<<user@domain>> That one I'm less sure about - also no <> at all I think occurrs as well. I'd be tempted to just ban that noise, and have people fix the broken stuff. | I entirely agree. Unfortunately, the commercial world does not, and it's | too late to put certain genies back into their bottles. Managers don't | want to be bothered with techical details. "Our clients worked with the | old MTA - go make the new MTA work with them too." is something that has | been passed on to me more than once. (The old MTA was "forgiving", you | see.) Oh - that isn't the kind of client/server interaction I was imagining. For that there doesn't need to be this strange "negotiated noncompliance" where the server just guesses for itself what the client is trying to do. This is a "known situation" - the server can be expressly configured to allow the violations committed by known broken clients that have to be dealt with (that's the kind of thing I meant where I said broken clients that can't be fixed can just relay through a MTA that will fix things). I had assumed that this "negotiated non-compliance" stuff was intended for your average MTA receiving messages from the big wide world of unknown who knows whats, rather than from the local installed client base (the people that have to be answered to). I have no problems at all with MTAs being able to be configured to be lenient, when their operator finds that is necessary for the environment. The problem I have is when the MTA simply decides that it should be, without anyone telling it to relax the restrictions. kre
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