Joe Acquisto-j4: > Well, I can tell you it is SuSe 10, postfix 2.5 (mumble). Beyond > that, I cannot divulge much more without running afoul of local > security concerns. > > The author of the reporting scripts is reluctant, but willing, to > correct the known issues, but I was hoping for some simple change > that would ignore any syntax problem in the from address of email, > from local/trusted sources, as this is likely to surface again as > time goes on.
Postfix tolerates many mistakes, but it won't parse an address with unquoted whitespace. There is a limit to what I consider reasonable. People who run Postfix 2.8 or later can use smtpd_command_filter (http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_command_filter) to make minor corrections before Postfix parses command input. The documentation shows some examples. Something like: /^RCPT\s+TO:<([^"[:space:]]+ .+)@([^[:space:]]+>.*)/ RCPT TO:<"$1"@$2 would deal with unquoted spaces in an address. One can make it more precise if needed; that's left as an exercise for the reader. Wietse
