Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Robbins
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 soli...@example.com: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table;

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Doug Robbins drobb...@smartlabrador.ca: 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 soli...@example.com: Recipient address

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Doug Robbins: Messages containing leading whitespace in the recipient address are rejected. Only if the recipient does not exist. 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 soli...@example.com: Recipient

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Doug Robbins
On 22-Jan-2010 10:11 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Doug Robbins: Messages containing leading whitespace in the recipient address are rejected. Only if the recipient does not exist. Example: Jan 22 08:32:41 vps10 postfix/smtpd[5937]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from smtpout.eastlink.ca[24.222.0.30]:

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Noah Sheppard
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:40:58AM -0330, Doug Robbins wrote: Is there something I can do to avoid these rejections (other than the obvious -- get dba...@example2.com to fix his address book)? A milter could remove recipients with spaces and add back ones without spaces. To do it completely

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:13:17PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Is there something I can do to avoid these rejections (other than the obvious -- get dba...@example2.com to fix his address book)? Hm, you could try and alias soli...@example.com to soli...@example.com But how??? The

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com: This said, far better to just reject this, and let the sender correct their address list. Yes. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Victor Duchovni: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:13:17PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Is there something I can do to avoid these rejections (other than the obvious -- get dba...@example2.com to fix his address book)? Hm, you could try and alias soli...@example.com to

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:16:07AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: The lookup keys and RHS values for virtual(5) are in rfc822 format. A PCRE table can take care of this: Virtual alias lookups are done in the unquoted form, while canonical map lookups are in quoted form. No, the cleanup(8)

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Victor Duchovni: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:16:07AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: The lookup keys and RHS values for virtual(5) are in rfc822 format. A PCRE table can take care of this: Virtual alias lookups are done in the unquoted form, while canonical map lookups are in quoted

Re: Email address with leading whitespace rejected

2010-01-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:33:58AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: One could argue that the SMTP server should use the external form of the recipient for these lookup, to match downstream behaviour in cleanup(8)... Indeed. There was no address validation in the initial design and