From: Andy Thompson (athompsonmooreheadcomm.com)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 07:00:28 CDT

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>>So we come full circle... what are the implications of enabling this on
>>my system? If an email goes thru my system with a - prefix on the email
>>address, what problems might that cause, other than the unknowns? If my
>>system receives an email with a - prefix on the address and I have this
>>enabled, what might I expect to happen?
>>
>
>
> Rule of thumb. If you are a gateway in front of other systems in your
> organization that you don't fully control or audit, don't accept mail
> that starts with "-". If you are a leaf-node system and all delivery
> agents are known to be robustly coded and mail that leaves the system
> leaves your organization, feel free to accept mail that starts with
> "-".
>

Thanks

-andy

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