[imp] Invalid emails don't bounce.

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Thu Nov 11 16:38:21 PST 2004


Michael Yingbull wrote:
> Emails that are syntactically incorrect (ie, foo at foo@foo.ca, or bracket
> problems, commas, etc) don't bounce to the user (IMP 3.2).   I'd assume this is
> because sendmail coughs when it gets the malformed mail?  Is there anyway these
> error conditions can be bounced back to the user?
> 

Forgot to mention that sendmail never evens receives the malformed mail 
because it is silently discarded by RFC822.php .


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