2 x "from=<>" in the logs

[Steven Patterson]

On Apr 7, 2003 at 8:43am Joachim Dostal wrote:

JD> yes thats seems to be right ... but why have they an empty form field
JD> ... is this a mailscanner problem or an sendmail trouble - need you
JD> more log- lines for deeper explaination ?

It's not a problem at all.

It's a mail being bounced back to you from somewhere else.  The empty from
field is deliberate to stop mail-bouncing loops.  If a bounced mail in
turn bounces then it tries to go back to <>, which doesn't exist so the
mail is just discarded.

Steve
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