On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Wolfgang Burger <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > not entirerly sure wether this is the right place to ask. Sorry if not. > I´m running dovecot on a Mac OS X Server (10.6.4). > Everything works fine. > When I try to enable a vacation message, I get the following error in the > log: > delays=0/0.01/0.09/0.1, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host XXX[x.x.x.x] said: > 553 Mail to <[email protected]> not allowed; missing domain name in MAIL > FROM (in reply to RCPT TO command)) > > Where host is the mail relay. The logs on the mail relay show matching > entries. > Sending mails is generally working. > > I´ve sniffed the network traffic and the FROM Field in the SMTP transfer > contains only the following text: > <> > > I´ve allready set the value of myorigin in /private/etc/postfix/main.cfbut to > no avail. > Can somebody tell me where I can set the sender address of the vacation > mail? > Or is there something else wrong? > > The <> represents the "null sender" in SMTP parlance. I think the issue here is that the destination SMTP server does NOT accept the null sender (<>), and that is a br0ken configuration. It has nothing to do with Dovecot though. I am not good at interpreting postfix logs so I cannot advise further. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube
