Sender address rejected because of trailing >

[Francis Abella]

Hey all - I've had a recurring problem which is getting worse.  It seems mail is being rejected by a lot of mail servers which do a DNS lookup because they're seeing  mybox.com> (note the >) taken from Return-Path:<"\"joeuser\" mailto:joeuser"@mybox.com>> (my domain does exist & is listed in a DNS) then, to add insult to injury, qmail on mybox is rejecting the mail because it can't find the user joeuser" (note the quotation mark) and is bounced around in nowhereland. Has anyone ever encountered this & how do you fix this? All this is documented, I believe, in the below: -----------------snip--------------------- Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mybox.com. I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced! <"joeuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: Sorry, I couldn't find any host named mybox.com>. (#5.1.2) --- Below this line is the original bounce. Return-Path: <> Received: (qmail 38682 invoked for bounce); 24 Oct 2000 21:58:12 -0000 Date: 24 Oct 2000 21:58:12 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "\"joeuser\" <joeuser"@mybox.com> Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mybox.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 209.240.198.92 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 504 <"joeuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: Sender address rejected: need fully-qualified address Giving up on 209.240.198.92. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <"\"joeuser\" <joeuser"@mybox.com>> Received: (qmail 38664 invoked by uid 1006); 24 Oct 2000 21:57:21 -0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "joeuser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gary Onzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 2 Nights!! Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:57:21 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You're the best. I love you Gary!!! Your friend, Joe xx -----------------snip--------------------- TYIA Francis Abella [EMAIL PROTECTED]