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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: RCPT TO:<Postmaster>

Many firewalls have SMTP servers that, for security reasons, do not
support local delivery; they simply relay messages to internal hosts.
What is ``RCPT TO:<postmaster>'' supposed to do?

Another example of the difference between expectations and reality is
that users often send mail to postmaster@bar.foo to complain about
host.baz.bar.foo.

---Dan
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