Thanks.

It's actually the mailing script this client is using that is adding the
headers in this way.  I will have to get with the client to resolve this.

That answers that issue.

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 9:53 AM Scott Mutter <mailopl...@amssupport.info>
wrote:

> We're seeing an increase of errors from Google's mail servers complaining
> about multiple addresses in the From header.  But these messages do not
> have multiple addresses in the From headers or multiple From headers.
>
> Best I can tell, this seems to be caused by additional spaces in some of
> the headers, I suppose the header immediately following the From header.
>
> I'm not really sure who is at fault here.  Are leading spaces in mail
> headers allowed?
>
> Headers formatted as:
>
> From: Name <em...@domain.tld>
>  MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> Generates this multiple addresses in From header error.
>
> Headers formatted as:
>
> From: Name <em...@domain.tld>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> Does not generate this error and messages are sent through.
>
> (In case the formatting of this message does not portray the issue
> correctly, there is a single space before MIME-Version: 1.0 in the message
> that generates this error)
>
> I'm not sure if a leading space in a message header is proper.  But I
> would also kind of lean towards this being a wrong regex being used by
> Google's mail servers to detect multiple addresses in the From header.
>
> Anybody else seeing this or have any insights?
>
>
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