Am 22.12.2012 23:10, schrieb Andrew Edelstein: > I have an issue where some of our web servers are passing bad email addresses > to a Postfix server, which is then > doing some sort of re-write on the address to make it compliant, then passing > it to our outbound server (PowerMTA). > PowerMTA is then attempting to send the message, which fails as the recipient > address doesn't exist. > I have a process that reads the PowerMTA log files and produces an XML report > for another application to read and > remove bad addresses from our database. This final process is unable to deal > with these addresses, as it does not > consider the form of the address to be "correct" and throws an error. I have > no control over this final process. > I thought for the longest time either PowerMTA or my log processing / report > generation tool was at fault, due to > the near-impossibility of a Unix shell script to properly process a CSV file. > I finally determined the problem is > at Postfix (or at least, could be solved at the Postfix level.)
why do you not fix your web-applications? there are functions to validate e-mail addresses in every programming language wrong behavior should be fixed at the root cause
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