This is more of a rant than a problem but has anyone heard of
rfc-ignorant.org?
I had a user call me the other day saying they had received some type of
error email message when trying to send to a specific address:
"We had an end user here at Gibson who was expecting an email from this
address (<user>@pacificgroup.net). Our mail server rejected the email
because the sending mail server is listed in dsn.rfc-ignorant.org as not
being compliant with RFC's. Thus, our spam filter prevents the message from
being delivered to the intended recipients at Canwest Propane and Gibson
Energy."
So I checked the website for rfc-ignorant.org and some guy had us listed
because we refuse NULL <> senders.
It says right in the IMail help that allowing no address in the MAIL FROM
line makes it easier for spam mailers to send bulk mail to your users.
I know that the RFC rules say that you are supposed to accept mail with a
blank from address but since the advent of spam are there really any rules
left? Isn't it pretty much gorilla warfare? I know this doesn't stop spam
but it helps to stop it.
Anyway, does anyone actually use this list and why? I think this list is a
joke. Any thoughts?
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