Messages rejected by SMTP server

[Tom Hughes]

In article <18444b4649.rav21 at gromit.mk-net.demon.co.uk>, Richard van der Hoff <rav21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> If I try to send a mail without a domain in the To: header (eg just to
> "rav21" for a test message) I get the error "Message rejected by SMTP
> server (Message rejected by SMTP server (Message ... " etc.

Bizarre.

> This seems doubly broken, since presumably RemoteNB (?) should add my mail
> domain before trying to forward the mail to the smarthost, and when it
> doesn't, I shouldn't get a nested error message. 

Off the top of my head I'm having a very hard time understanding
how it's managing to produce that recursive message but I'll check
it out. The bit in brackets is supposed to be the error message
from the server.

As to whether it should qualify addresses... Well I suppose their
is an argument for it, though the same is true of the MTA that
you're talking to - most MTAs will add the local domain if the MUA
hasn't supplied it.

Tom

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