SMTP and RFC complience

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi,
"Systems connecting using SMTP
should be complient with following request for RFC standard:
-RFC 821 Simple mail transfer Protocol
-RFC 822 Internate mail Header Format
-RFC 1123 Internate Host Requirments.
-RFC 1869 SMTP Service Extension
-RFC 1891 SMTP Delivery Status Notification.
-RFC 1894 Delivery Status Notifications.
-RFC 2476 Message Submission "

How Can I test and prove it ?
Any help ?

Thanks
Animesh

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

Sendmail comlies with RFC821 (Simple Mail Transport Protocol), RFC822 (Internet Mail Format Protocol), RFC1123 (Internet Host Requirements), RFC1521 (MIME), RFC1651 (SMTP Service Extensions), RFC1891 (SMTP Delivery Status Notifications), RFC1892 (Multipart/Report), RFC1893 (Mail System Status Codes), RFC1894 (Delivery Status Notifications), and RFC1985 (SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting).

And Qmail is not fully RFC compliant .

regards,

U.SivaKumar

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

Sendmail comlies with RFC821 (Simple Mail Transport Protocol), RFC822 (Internet Mail Format Protocol), RFC1123 (Internet Host Requirements), RFC1521 (MIME), RFC1651 (SMTP Service Extensions), RFC1891 (SMTP Delivery Status Notifications), RFC1892 (Multipart/Report), RFC1893 (Mail System Status Codes), RFC1894 (Delivery Status Notifications), and RFC1985 (SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting).

And Qmail is not fully RFC compliant .

regards,

U.SivaKumar

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

Sendmail comlies with RFC821 (Simple Mail Transport Protocol), RFC822 (Internet Mail Format Protocol), RFC1123 (Internet Host Requirements), RFC1521 (MIME), RFC1651 (SMTP Service Extensions), RFC1891 (SMTP Delivery Status Notifications), RFC1892 (Multipart/Report), RFC1893 (Mail System Status Codes), RFC1894 (Delivery Status Notifications), and RFC1985 (SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting).

And Qmail is not fully RFC compliant .

regards,

U.SivaKumar

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi All,
I am still stuck here .Even opening a case with HP does not help much.
I have configured sendmail(Sendmail 8.9.3 and hpux 11i).
and it is working fine.
"Sendmail 8.9.3 and higher provides anti-spam features that enable you to control the flow of mail messages coming in from certain domains by
using an access database".
It is working fine for the accepted domains configured in access db also.
Now Can I accept all mail from
postmaster@*,
mailmaster@* and mailerdaemon@* ?
As our mail administrator says "RFC's rate postmaster* as
cumpolsory, you need to handle/accept all fatal sytem error regardless
of domain to and from postmaster. Since a
postmaster@machine.sub.domainname may return your message it would be
easier to acceppt all messages to and from postmaster."
Can anybody help me on this ?
gurenteed 10 points!

[U.SivaKumar_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Edit sendmail.cf file and uncomment these lines.

O PostmasterCopy=postmaster
O DoubleBounceAddress=postmaster

edit /etc/aliases file , modify like this

mailer-daemon: you@yourdomain.co.in
postmaster: you@yourdomain.co.in

Run this command.

#newaliases -i

Restart sendmail .

Now the error messages and bounce messages will mailed to you@yourdomain.co.in
( Mail Admin address )

regards,
U.SivaKumar