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List:       sqwebmail
Subject:    [sqwebmail] Re: Empty To-field behaviour
From:       "Hans Otto Lunde" <ho () egmont-hs ! dk>
Date:       2003-05-24 20:32:43
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> Sqwebmail simply passes your message over to your MTA for sending. It is
> the responsibility of you MTA to bounce the message back to you. I run
> Sqwebmail (versions 3.1 and 3.3.7) with Postfix on two different machines.
> When I occassionally forget to specify the To address, Postfix promptly
> bounces the original email back to me with an informative message about 
> the problem. What MTA are you using? Maybe it has to be configured to 
> reject emails with invalid or missing To addresses.

qmail is my MTA as mentioned and you're right that I'll have to set up some 
kind of filter for this situation. I'm just surprised that the default 
behaviour is to bounce a message with a to field containing rubbish but not 
an empty to-field. Well, you learn every day...
Thanks anyway. 

Hans Otto 

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