Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate?

[Harry Hoffman <hhoffman () ip-solutions net>]

Sadly, it seems that more and more mail servers are RFC-apathetic :-(

And the admins even more so... It almost seems the larger the company 
the less likely to follow RFCs (IME).

There there's people like spamcop who think that RFCs are ok for some 
things but not for others :-(

</sigh>

--Harry

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Wednesday, February 06, 2008 12:25:19 -0500 Harry Hoffman 
> <hhoffman () ip-solutions net> wrote:
>
> > You just need to take it a step further :-)
> >
> > ...
> > rcpt to: <nosuchuser12323123123123132124432342 () yahoo com>
> > 250 recipient <nosuchuser12323123123123132124432342 () yahoo com> ok
> > data
> > 354 go ahead
> > Testing
> > .
> >
> > 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account
> > (nosuchuser12323123123123132124432342 () yahoo com) [0] -
> > mta367.mail.mud.yahoo.com
> > 421 Service not available, closing transmission channel.
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> >
> > Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > > On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:44:10 CST, Paul Schmehl said:
> > >
> > > > RCPT TO: <abuse () yahoo com>
> > > > 250 recipient <abuse () yahoo com> ok
> > > % telnet f.mx.mail.yahoo.com 25
> > > ...
> > > rcpt to: <ctl-alt-cokebottle () yahoo com>
> > > 250 recipient <ctl-alt-cokebottle () yahoo com> ok
> > >
> > > Yee. Hah.  They 250 for a probably-nonexistent account (unless that
> > > one actually *does* exist? :)
>
> They're also the first mail server I've ever connected to that won't accept 
> user () domain tld and insists on <user () domain tld> instead.  So, I'm not 
> surprised to find that they 250 everything you type in.
>
> I guess RFCs are even more meaningless now than they always have been.   :-(
>
> BTW, privately I was informed that the *real* address is security () yahoo-inc com.
>
> Who knew.

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