Need some help getting tmomail.net MMS messages into my qmail server. Gmail.com has apparently overcome the "invalid sender" issues which are blocked by chkuser. Mail to
earthlink.net  also succeeds.

My qmail / vpopmail: vpopmail-toaster-5.4.13-1.3.3 Uses chkuser: v. 2.0.8 for vpopmail > 5.3.x

Email server blocks MMS email from tmomail.net

e.g. # grep -i 'invalid sender address format' Log  |  tai64nlocal
  Log /var/log/qmail/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Produces "invalid sender address format" for the TMOMAIL MMS email..

2007-05-28 21:31:54.930953500 CHKUSER rejected sender:  from \
<1805nnnnnnn/[EMAIL PROTECTED]::> remote <mailx06.tmomail.net:unknown:66.94.9.236> \ rcpt <> : invalid sender address format *** nnnnnnn is substituted for anonimity ***

Notwithstanding the enormity of RFC's which define left-hand-part (user) of To addresses, no
clear case is clarified for sender (from addresses).

Hard to imagine T-mobile changing the sender format issues. Guessing that good SPAM
management needs to block doubtful senders passing in, wholesale.

Any ideas welcome ...


Everett F Batey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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