> Hey Dan, > > Pretty pathetic flame really, you're meant to be both knowledgeable > and witty,

who told you that? I was under the impression that you just annoyed me, for general assumption and failing to read your cited sources properly.

> Just another quick question. > > Why is it that all these admins who use Imail can configure it to > reject NULL senders but can't configure it back again?

Dunno, ask them and find out. I can tell you that mine accepts bounce messages (unless somene has been playing with it since I last checked

> I sorta > assumed that it must be because its a default setting.

Ah, "assumed"

> And of course I ask the admins of Imail systems to configure their > MTAs so they accept bounces. But it seems to be beyond them, thats > sorta why I assumed that Imail is for neophytes.

Hmm, "assumed" again

> I have unconfigured one Imail system which was rejecting NULL > senders (the only Imail system I've ever touched) and it seemed > to be way too easy to configure it to reject NULL senders. It > seems a lot of admins have no idea so allowing them to do something > which causes problems so easily is a BAD idea.

Out of how many Imail installations in total (there are hods of them) have this problem? I don't know, but I am sure that it is quite small. But lets look at other aspects of Imail, such as "postmaster@" always exists and can't IIRC, be deleted, as opposed to some other systems where they have to be added manually, and clueless admiins don't. Swings and roundabouts

> PS I dont think that the RFCs touch on admins who mess with > settings maybe you can point that one out. Or is that an RTFM > that you are alluding to?

Yeah, probably. I had a link to an MS knowledge base spoof somewhere but I can't find it at the moment. I think it may have been posted here a few weeks ago

> PPS Aren't the RFCs there to be used and cited?

I would have said there to be used when writing the software, configuring etc. What I meant was people blowing off "RFC this and RFC that" I know, you know a lot of people here know (or will do soon, as members of this list, for the most part, seem to be clued in, and generally gather cluons fairly rapidly)

> PPPS I am pissed off. (Can't you tell?)

Me too, see my post a few minutes ago in reply to the mad scientist