* Doug Robbins <[email protected]>:
> Messages containing leading whitespace in the recipient address are
> rejected.
> 
> Example:
> 
> Jan 22 08:32:41 vps10 postfix/smtpd[5937]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
> smtpout.eastlink.ca[24.222.0.30]: 550 5.1.1 < [email protected]>:
> Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table;
> from=<[email protected]> to=< [email protected]> proto=ESMTP
> helo=<mta03.eastlink.ca>
> 
> [email protected] is a legitimate and functioning mail account.

But " [email protected]" isn't.
 
> I'm guessing that the sender has a bad address book entry, like "
> [email protected]" -- a leading space before the address.

Yes, probably.
 
> Is there a good reason why Postfix doesn't simply ignore a leading
> space like this?

Garbage in, garbage out?

> Is there something I can do to avoid these rejections (other than the
> obvious -- get [email protected] to fix his address book)?

Hm, you could try and alias " [email protected]" to
"[email protected]"

But how???

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