Hello All,

We run a postfix smtp relay that customers use. Customers have reported
that they can not send out of offies replies from their Exchange Server.

Further investigation shows that this is caused by Microsoft changing the
way Exchange 2010 delivers out of office replies whereby it replaces the
sender with a null sender address to conform to RFC 2298.

See here:
http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2010/management-administration/automatic-email-server-notifications-in-exchange-server-2010.html

Our postfix smtp relay is only set to allow users to relay through it if
the Source IP address and sender domain contained inside the access-sender
file is configured resulting in out of office replies with a null sender
address being denied.

\\ snippet of postfix config

mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, 10.x.x.0/19
smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_sender_access
hash:/etc/postfix/access-sender reject

My questions is - Is there a way to get postfix to allow Outlook out of
office replies with the null sender address to relay through it without
adding ALL DOMAINS to the access-sender file(thus making it an open relay)?
I've googled around but haven't really found an answer to this question.
Not sure if the only way to allow this is to set up some form of SASL
authentication between the customer's Exchange Server and our smtp relay.

We are running postfix 2.3.3

# postconf -d | grep mail_version
mail_version = 2.3.3
milter_macro_v = $mail_name $mail_version

Thank you in advance.

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