# modifying "from=\<\>"

**URL:** <https://community.ciphermail.com/t/modifying-from/511>\
**Category:** Gateway\
**Created:** [July 18, 2016, 7:59am UTC](https://community.ciphermail.com/t/modifying-from/511 "2016-07-18T07:59:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Stefan\_Gunther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Stefan\_Gunther](https://community.ciphermail.com/u/Stefan_Gunther)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 7:59am UTC](https://community.ciphermail.com/t/modifying-from/511/1 "2016-07-18T07:59:26Z")

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Hi Martijn,

our problem was, that one of our clients has a MS Exchange with the setting "Don't accept empty sender addresses".  
Therefore the notifcations weren't accepted.

Kind regards,

Stefan

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**Author:** ![martijn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.ciphermail.com/martijn/32/127_2.png) [@martijn](https://community.ciphermail.com/u/martijn)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 8:06am UTC](https://community.ciphermail.com/t/modifying-from/511/2 "2016-07-18T08:06:24Z")

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This also means that they will not receive any bounce messages if they  
also have this restriction on mail coming in from external.

Kind regards,

Martijn Brinkers

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> On 07/18/2016 09:59 AM, Stefan Günther wrote:
> 
> > Hi Martijn,
> > 
> > our problem was, that one of our clients has a MS Exchange with the  
> > setting "Don't accept empty sender addresses". Therefore the  
> > notifcations weren't accepted.
> 
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**Author:** ![lst\_hoe021](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@lst\_hoe021](https://community.ciphermail.com/u/lst_hoe021)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.ciphermail.com/t/modifying-from/511/3 "2016-07-18T13:02:13Z")

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Zitat von Martijn Brinkers \<martijn(a)ciphermail.com\>:

> > Hi Martijn,
> > 
> > our problem was, that one of our clients has a MS Exchange with the  
> > setting "Don't accept empty sender addresses". Therefore the  
> > notifcations weren't accepted.
> 
> This also means that they will not receive any bounce messages if they  
> also have this restriction on mail coming in from external.

They also don't receive self requested read confirmation and the like.  
We also have such morons at the remote end and they all use Exchange.  
Maybe the Outlook "Administrator" does manage E-Mail at this sites and  
has never heard about any SMTP related RFC. I would not care about  
them and for sure not breaking a RFC konform working system to get  
them notified.

Regards

Andreas

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> > On 07/18/2016 09:59 AM, Stefan Günther wrote: