Thanks David.
Sounds great. But where exactly can I set the MAIL FROM address format in
qmail? I don't remember this as a configurable option. & if it was, can I
reconfigure it without rejigging everything?
Francis Abella
----- Original Message -----
From: David Geller
To: 'Francis Abella' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 24 October, 2000 8:49 PM
Subject: RE: Sender address rejected because of trailing >
Are you possibly setting the MAIL FROM address to be the same as the one
that appears in the message head for Return-Path? If so, that might be where
the problem is. I could be wrong, but I think the format for the MAIL FROM
should be the simple form of the address, without the decorative name
attached (per RFC821). Whatever you use to talk to your smtp daemon should
probably only present an address in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] when setting
MAIL FROM as in:
MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And then, later, set the reply-to address to anything reasonable, when
you're pumping header info to the server.
- David Geller
-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Abella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 5:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sender address rejected because of trailing >
Hey all -
I've had a recurring problem which is getting worse. It seems mail is being
rejected by a lot of mail servers which do a DNS lookup because they're
seeing mybox.com> (note the >) taken from
Return-Path:<"\"joeuser\" mailto:joeuser"@mybox.com>>
(my domain does exist & is listed in a DNS)
then, to add insult to injury, qmail on mybox is rejecting the mail because
it can't find the user joeuser" (note the quotation mark) and is bounced
around in nowhereland.
Has anyone ever encountered this & how do you fix this?
All this is documented, I believe, in the below:
-----------------snip---------------------
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mybox.com.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!
<"joeuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named mybox.com>. (#5.1.2)
--- Below this line is the original bounce.
Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 38682 invoked for bounce); 24 Oct 2000 21:58:12 -0000
Date: 24 Oct 2000 21:58:12 -0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "\"joeuser\" <joeuser"@mybox.com>
Subject: failure notice
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mybox.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
209.240.198.92 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 504 <"joeuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: Sender address
rejected: need fully-qualified address
Giving up on 209.240.198.92.
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Return-Path: <"\"joeuser\" <joeuser"@mybox.com>>
Received: (qmail 38664 invoked by uid 1006); 24 Oct 2000 21:57:21 -0000
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "joeuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gary Onzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 Nights!!
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:57:21 GMT
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
You're the best.
I love you Gary!!!
Your friend, Joe xx
-----------------snip---------------------
TYIA
Francis Abella
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
