Re: Verizon Postmaster contact?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com>]

Bob German writes on 11/3/2003 2:54 PM:

> My understanding is that they started breaking the RFC by refusing mail
> with null <> senders last week.
>
> Based on past experience, I wasn't too surprised.

Doesn't look like they are doing this.

suresh@frodo 01:31:15 [~]$ dnsmx verizon.net
0 relay.verizon.net

suresh@frodo 01:31:23 [~]$ telnet relay.verizon.net 25
Trying 206.46.170.12...
Connected to relay.verizon.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 sc011.verizon.net MailPass SMTP server v1.0.6 - 103003062626JY ready 
Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:01:28 -0600
ehlo frodo.hserus.net
250-sc011.verizon.net
250-8BITMIME
250 SIZE 20971520
mail from: <>
250 Sender <> OK
rcpt to: <postmaster () verizon net>
250 Recipient <postmaster () verizon net> Ok
rset
250 Ok resetting state
quit
221 sc011.verizon.net closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

Another thing - verizon is fairly responsive and does have some clued 
people in there.  I have forwarded this thread to a friend in Verizon's 
 postmaster desk.

        srs

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