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and subject line Re: postfix: postfix refuses to deliver to e-mail address
starting with a dash
has caused the Debian Bug report #165244,
regarding postfix: postfix refuses to deliver to e-mail address starting with a
dash
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Package: postfix
Version: 1.1.11.0-3
Severity: normal
I'm not sure how kosher e-mail addresses starting with dashes are, but they
exist on popular services (excite.com), and postfix reports back:
<[email protected]>: invalid recipient syntax: "[email protected]"
Other mailers (exim), however, do seem to properly deliver to this sort of
e-mail address.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux joehill 2.4.19-joehill.2.appletalk #1 Wed Sep 18 18:16:32 EDT
2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii adduser 3.48 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.2.10 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.9 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.2.5-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb3 3.2.9-17 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii libgdbmg1 1.7.3-27.1 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii netbase 4.08 Basic TCP/IP networking system
-- debconf information:
postfix/master_upgrade_warning:
* postfix/mailname: bostoncoop.net
postfix/recipient_delim: +
* postfix/main_mailer_type: Internet Site
postfix/transport_map_warning:
* postfix/append_dot_mydomain: false
postfix/db2_db3_upgrade: true
postfix/relayhost:
postfix/procmail: true
postfix/bad_recipient_delimiter:
* postfix/root_address: adam
postfix/rfc1035_violation: false
postfix/mynetworks: 127.0.0.0/8
* postfix/destinations: localhost
postfix/not_configured:
postfix/mailbox_limit: 0
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--- Begin Message ---
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:39:45 -0400 Adam Kessel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: postfix
> Version: 1.1.11.0-3
> Severity: normal
>
> I'm not sure how kosher e-mail addresses starting with dashes are, but they
> exist on popular services (excite.com), and postfix reports back:
>
> <[email protected]>: invalid recipient syntax: "[email protected]"
>
> Other mailers (exim), however, do seem to properly deliver to this sort of
> e-mail address.
This is now well documented (excerpt from man 5 postconf):
allow_min_user (default: no)
Allow a sender or recipient address to have `-' as the first character.
By default, this is not allowed, to avoid accidents with software that passes
email addresses via the command line. Such software would not
be able to distinguish a malicious address from a bona fide command-
line option. Although this can be prevented by inserting a "--" option
terminator into the command line, this is difficult to enforce consis-
tently and globally.
As of Postfix version 2.5, this feature is implemented by trivial-
rewrite(8). With earlier versions this feature was implemented by qmgr(8) and
was limited to recipient addresses only.
I don't see a need to keep a Debian bug open for this.
Scott K
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