> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Robert Spier wrote: > >> Suggestion is not to accept addresses without <> in mail() and rcpt(). > > > > We shouldn't do that unless some other major mailer is doing it. > > Otherwise it will bite us. > > Addresses without <> are not valid SMTP. > > I think that mailfront requires <>. I've never noticed any breakage, > except that I needed to learn to use <> when testing in telnet.
Sure, but sendmail has accepted addresses without <> forever. I guess the real question is what does qmail do? (Since that's out reference implementation) -R
