On 2017-02-12, at 15:56, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > I'm fully on board with "Subscription=Open,Confirm" if it makes email safer > in general. What frosts me is that the "D" of WAD misses the mark and is > actually counterproductive. I'm told (!) that we have implemented what we > lovingly call 'industry best practice' in quarantining any email with no > sender specified. It does not matter what the sender field contains; it just > cannot be blank. So send the confirmation note with something--anything--in > that field, and all will be well. > > I cannot imagine any technical or policy reason for leaving that field blank. > It has Omission written all over it. This problem affects multiple shops. If > should be fixed at the source. > I see that, as you said, messages posted to IBM-MAIN have "Sender:"; confirmation requests lack it. Can you or your email tech retrieve *just*one* confirmation request from quarantine so you can confirm, they you'll be home free?
(TSO-REXX is the same way.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN