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Unreceived genuine emails due to extra space after MAIL FROM: #101
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@Fell

I have not received an email about a flight schedule change due to this:

bad syntax: expected "<" (remaining " <no-reply@koreanair.com>")

Now, I know this issue has come up before, but in different ways.

As @mjl- mentioned in https://github.com/mjl-/mox/issues/51#issuecomment-1656138445 the extra space after MAIL FROM: is not permitted in SMTP.

Mox doesn't allow it, as it is normally a sign of spammers with a sloppy SMTP implementation.

However, it appears that airlines, often infamous for their outdated IT infrastructre, also use sloppy SMTP implementations. This is a problem. If I didn't also receive an SMS notifiaction, I would have never known about this schedule change.

I fully understand that Mox wants to only use correct SMTP and prevent as much spam as possible, but I think the implementation needs to be less strict here.

Note: If you want to poke (or blame) the SMTP server in question, it was tc03.koreanair.com or 211.218.145.102.
Edit: Doesn't look like there is an actual SMTP server behind that address.

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