* 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??? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 [email protected] | http://www.charite.de
