Hello, I did some more testing and it appears that powermail will not send an email that has more then 80 (as far as I can tell) characters in the "To:" field (for example: '<net-virtual.com-gsaylor2-qconfirm- [EMAIL PROTECTED]>' is 96 characters and if I change it to '<rtual.com-gsaylor2-qconfirm- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> it will work correctly...)... The RFC specifies no limit on this
I can also send email to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .. but not <[EMAIL PROTECTED] virtual.com> (note the extra "A" at the beginning)... However, if I telnet directly to port 25 (same mail server which powermail connects to I can issue a: Rcpt To: <012345678900123456789012345 6789001234567890012345678900123456789 0123456789012345678901234567890123456 [EMAIL PROTECTED]> (which is obviously MUCH longer) and it will get delivered correctly... Therefore I must believe this has it's roots somewhere in Powermail's design.... I did go read the RFC (<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt>) and it says: **************************************************** * * * TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT POSSIBLE, IMPLEMENTATION * * TECHNIQUES WHICH IMPOSE NO LIMITS ON THE LENGTH * * OF THESE OBJECTS SHOULD BE USED. * * * **************************************************** user The maximum total length of a user name is 64 characters. domain The maximum total length of a domain name or number is 64 characters. Clearly I have not hit either of these limits...... Unless Powermail is sending < > around the "To:" address.. In any event, does anyone know what is going on with this?.... - Greg >Hello, > >I am trying to install qcontrol on my mail server (finally totally fed up >with the level of junk email)... The tool I am trying to use is qcontrol >(for qmail servers), but that's not really important... What is important >is how it works, basically, it's a system which requires that individuals >who want to email you must reply to a confirmation email before being >allowed to deliver email to my account.. > >So if you were to send an email to me the system would require you to >first reply to an acknowledgement email which gets set out... > >The email looks something like this (just to give you an idea): > > >--------- >Hello, this is the qconfirm mail-handling program. One or more messages >from you are being held because your address was not recognized. > >To release your pending message(s) for delivery, please reply to this >request. Your reply will not be read, so an empty message is fine. > >If you do not reply to this request, your message(s) will eventually be >returned to you, and will never be delivered to the envelope recipient. > >This confirmation verifies that your message(s) are legitimate and not >junk-mail. > >Regards, the qconfirm program, http://smarden.org/qconfirm/ >--------- > > >All of this seems to be working fine, but it appears that Powermail is, >for some reason, truncating the "reply address"... > >Here's a sample header from the above email: > >------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ >Return-Path: <> >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Received: (qmail 16034 invoked by uid 89); 29 Jul 2003 12:22:29 -0000 >Date: 29 Jul 2003 12:22:29 -0000 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "qconfirm" <net-virtual.com-gsaylor2-qconfirm- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Please confirm your message >----------------------------------------------------------- > > >However, when I use Powermails "reply" feature the message sits in a >"Sending" status forever... I noticed in looking in the "to" line it >only has "<net-virtual.com-gsaylor2-qconfirm- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]>".. > >Does anyone know what is going on?.. Is this a bug in Powermail?.. > >Thanks! > >- Greg > > >>p
