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[Tom Hughes]

In message <5e84834649.rav21 at gromit.mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Richard van der Hoff <rav21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> In message <yek6710sqyn.fsf at elva.cyberscience.com>
>           Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Is it?  I was under the impression this was not the case, though I
> certainly haven't read the relevant RFC.

You're quite right - all addresses used in the SMTP protocol
exchange itself must be qualified. This is an RFC822 requirement
and was being broken by RemoteNB but is now fixed.

What confused me was that the error you got confused me because
it appeared to be reported when the message body was submitted
so I assumed it was objected to the actual message headers.

What I had forgotten is that RemoteNB ignored any RCPT TO commands
which failed because it wasn't clear what to do if some worked and
some didn't. Because of that the DATA command was then failing as
no valid recipients had been specified.

I have also changed RemoteNB to raise an error if any recipient
fails as I think this is better than silently ignoring any which
fail.

> > - most MTAs will add the local domain if the MUA hasn't supplied it.
>
> There's probably a way to persuade exim to do it for me ... :-)

receiver_unqualifed_hosts = ...

Tom

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