Hi,

I've run into a little problem, easily solved, but I'd like to know
where the problem actually is.

I have a mail that is rejected by the destination server (an exim) with:
1964422C509A     4257 Thu Jan 28 13:51:40  [email protected]
(host mail.intesasanpaolo.ro[80.96.9.11] said: 550 No verifiable sender address 
in message headers (in reply to end of DATA command))
                                        [email protected]

The problem is the From: header, which you can see bellow, and the
destination server chokes on the unquoted ``:'' (while a few hundreds
other servers don't).


named_attribute: dsn_orig_rcpt=rfc822;[email protected]
original_recipient: [email protected]
recipient: [email protected]
*** MESSAGE CONTENTS deferred/1/1964422C509A ***
Received: from secre (unknown [81.196.207.140])
       (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
       (No client certificate requested)
       by worf.ds9.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1964422C509A
       for <[email protected]>; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:51:40 +0200 (EET)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:58:54 +0200
From: CCIpR: Segreteria <[email protected]>
To: Ana Maria MIRITA <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: test
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Organization: CCIpR
X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32)
Mime-Version: 1.0                                                               
                                                                             
Content-Type: text/ plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 


Questions:
- should ``:'' be quoted ?
- should the MUA be blamed for the lack of quoting?
- if the From: header, without quotes, is invalid, is there a way to
  make postfix reject the mail at submission time?

It's a bit unclear for me from reading the RFCs.


Thanks,

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