Hi, I also have the same problem here, with many clients that somehow got into their fu.... Outlook addresses with single quotes for example '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' I have checked and Thunderbird also fails to notify of bad address format, so M$ is not the only one to blaim. Maybe checking this would not be to bad.
P.S.: I would wait for this "future" a bit longer if IMAP should come first ;) Matic Davide Libenzi pravi: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, CLEMENT Francis wrote: > > >> Hello Davide and list >> >> I don't know if i reported this problem before so excuse me if allready >> done. >> >> On my xmail 1.22 (w2k sp4 win32 platform) I noticed the following symptom : >> >> When a mail is send to an external 'TO' address (not handled by xmail) and >> the 'TO' address is syntaxicaly bad in the domain part (special characters >> like quote, see sample slog bellow) xmail retries and retries, until >> reaching last retry and finaly send back a NDR report ! >> Why xmail, on 'bad domain names', retries (no resolvable at all, my win32 >> nslookup says "command syntax error")? >> This is a big problem for our customers as they don't receive a NDR >> immediately after first try (like previously with xmail 1.17, never used >> 1.18/1.9/1.20/1.21). They know only the error after several hours/days >> (depending of xmail retries patterns used) >> >> Seems xmail don't really check syntaxicaly the domain part of the 'TO' >> addresses !?!? >> Notice that I don't use the 'smartdnshost' setting, so xmail use its own >> resolver from begining to end of domain dns mx resolution. So even if xmail >> don't check the syntax, the xmail dns resolver should return at least a 'no >> existing domain' or 'bad request' and then the smail module should stop >> immediatly, no ? >> (I don't know own xmail handle the dns responses and what is the exact dns >> response in this case ...) >> >> Any other guys having this problem ? >> Any ideas Davide ? >> > > While anal address checking is planned for the next release, the friggin > MUA should fscking check that too, no? It can provide a better UI to the > user instead of a cryptic SMTP response, no? > > > > - Davide > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
