553 ORCPT address syntax error

[Tony Boston]

Hi,

I have an issue with forwarding mails which belong to the local root user.
I never had that and it seems something changed in opensmtpd?

In /etc/mail/aliases I used to say 
  root: sys...@example.com 

This always worked but stopped working and the following error pops up in the 
logs:
smtp failed-command command="RCPT TO: ORCPT=rfc822;root" 
result="553 ORCPT address syntax error”

It actually does work when I try something like ‘echo Test | mail 
sys...@example.com’ BUT 'echo Test | mail root’ does not

Am I missing something?

—
Tony
 

Re: 553 ORCPT address syntax error

[Slavik Svyrydiuk]

> In /etc/mail/aliases I used to say 
>   root: sys...@example.com 

Your /etc/aliases must look like:

root: sys...@example.com

>From man page:

 user-part@domain-part
 An email address in RFC 5322 format.  If an address extension is
 appended to the user-part, it is first compared for an exact
 match.  It is then stripped so that an address such as
 user+...@example.com will only use the part that precedes `+' as
 a key.


On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:43:11 +0200
Tony Boston  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have an issue with forwarding mails which belong to the local root user.
> I never had that and it seems something changed in opensmtpd?
> 
> In /etc/mail/aliases I used to say 
>   root: sys...@example.com 
> 
> This always worked but stopped working and the following error pops up in the 
> logs:
> smtp failed-command command="RCPT TO: ORCPT=rfc822;root" 
> result="553 ORCPT address syntax error”
> 
> It actually does work when I try something like ‘echo Test | mail 
> sys...@example.com’ BUT 'echo Test | mail root’ does not
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> —
> Tony
>  

-- 
with best regards,
Slavik Svyrydiuk

Re: 553 ORCPT address syntax error

[Tony Boston]

> On 15. Jun 2020, at 15:10, Slavik Svyrydiuk  wrote:
> 
>> In /etc/mail/aliases I used to say 
>>  root: sys...@example.com 
> 
> Your /etc/aliases must look like:
> 
> root: sys...@example.com

And that’s what I used if you read my mail correctly.

> From man page:
> 
> user-part@domain-part
> An email address in RFC 5322 format.  If an address extension is
> appended to the user-part, it is first compared for an exact
> match.  It is then stripped so that an address such as
> user+...@example.com will only use the part that precedes `+' as
> a key.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:43:11 +0200
> Tony Boston  wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have an issue with forwarding mails which belong to the local root user.
>> I never had that and it seems something changed in opensmtpd?
>> 
>> In /etc/mail/aliases I used to say 
>>  root: sys...@example.com 
>> 
>> This always worked but stopped working and the following error pops up in 
>> the logs:
>> smtp failed-command command="RCPT TO: ORCPT=rfc822;root" 
>> result="553 ORCPT address syntax error”
>> 
>> It actually does work when I try something like ‘echo Test | mail 
>> sys...@example.com’ BUT 'echo Test | mail root’ does not
>> 
>> Am I missing something?
>> 
>> —
>> Tony
>> 
> 
> -- 
> with best regards,
> Slavik Svyrydiuk
> 

Re: 553 ORCPT address syntax error

[Thomas Bohl]

In /etc/mail/aliases I used to say
  root: sys...@example.com 


Your /etc/aliases must look like:

root: sys...@example.com


And that’s what I used if you read my mail correctly.


The plane text version of your mail has exactly the quoted line.

https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@opensmtpd.org/msg05036.html