Re: Illegal address syntax in MAIL command

2021-07-07 Thread jim
That did the trick! Many thanks. ;) On 2021-07-07 10:21, Kevin N. wrote: It seems that in the MAIL command the IP address is still not between []. should be On a quick look, it seems that you could try setting resolve_numeric_domain = yes in your Postfix configuration and see if that

Re: Illegal address syntax in MAIL command

2021-07-07 Thread Wietse Venema
You can fix MAIL FROM and other commands with smtpd_command_filter. See http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_command_filter Wietse

Re: Illegal address syntax in MAIL command

2021-07-07 Thread Kevin N.
It seems that in the MAIL command the IP address is still not between []. should be On a quick look, it seems that you could try setting resolve_numeric_domain = yes in your Postfix configuration and see if that changes anything. From http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html

Re: Illegal address syntax in MAIL command

2021-07-07 Thread jim
I believe you are correct, but again I have no control over that part. Also, I mistakenly attached the log attempt from the telnet session I tried, the actual systems having issues have the from address within brackets, here is the system in question: Jul 6 15:18:42 localhost

Re: Illegal address syntax in MAIL command

2021-07-07 Thread Kevin N.
When using IP addresses in the email address, shouldn't the IP be enclosed between []? For example: noreply@[100.67.10.122] instead of noreply@100.67.10.122 Cheers, K. On 07/07/2021 17:49, j...@wrightthisway.com wrote: Hello folks.  I have set up a fresh instance of Postfix at my office to

Re: Illegal address syntax

2020-05-07 Thread Wietse Venema
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:51:37PM +, Pedro David Marco wrote: > Hi! > Is it possible to make Postfix Reject instead of warn for "Illegal > address syntax"? To avoid flooding logs with garbage, Postfix normally REJECTs command syntax errors without logging anything. However, there is a long

Re: Illegal address syntax

2020-05-07 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:51:37PM +, Pedro David Marco wrote: > Hi! > Is it possible to make Postfix Reject instead of warn for  "Illegal address > syntax"? So I've actually mailed about the same issue last week. As far as I can see, postfix does reject it. My case was with a space in the

Re: Illegal address syntax

2020-05-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.05.20 23:51, Pedro David Marco wrote: Hi! Is it possible to make Postfix Reject instead of warn for  "Illegal address syntax"? Thanks! doesn't it reject? I have rejections here although log says warn: May 7 08:22:43 mail postfix/smtps/smtpd[653]: connect from unknown[192.168.x.x] May

Re: “Illegal address syntax”: send error notification

2016-10-18 Thread ego...@gmail.com
Got it. Thanks for the answer! 2016-10-17 18:21 GMT+02:00 Wietse Venema : > ego...@gmail.com: > > Is it possible to notify a remote sender [for email that the SMTP > > server rejects] > > No. When an SMTP server does not accept a message, it is the > responsibility of the

Re: “Illegal address syntax”: send error notification

2016-10-17 Thread Wietse Venema
ego...@gmail.com: > Is it possible to notify a remote sender [for email that the SMTP > server rejects] No. When an SMTP server does not accept a message, it is the responsibility of the SMTP client to inform the sender that email was not accepted. Wietse

Re: illegal address syntax

2014-08-21 Thread DTNX Postmaster
On 21 Aug 2014, at 19:32, Joe Acquisto-j4 j...@j4computers.com wrote: Some mail from local (mynetworks) machines are getting mail rejected with warning: Illegal address syntax from blah in MAIL command: a b c This is despite resolve_numeric_domain = yes in main.cf, which I read was

Re: illegal address syntax

2014-08-21 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 21.08.2014 um 19:32 schrieb Joe Acquisto-j4: Some mail from local (mynetworks) machines are getting mail rejected with warning: Illegal address syntax from blah in MAIL command: a b c This is despite resolve_numeric_domain = yes in main.cf, which I read was supposed to fix bad from

Re: illegal address syntax

2014-08-21 Thread 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

Re: illegal address syntax

2014-08-21 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Please excuse the top posting, if that offends, as I am forced to use a web client that cannot bottom post. Easily. Here it is, only a bit obfuscated: Aug 21 13:18:07 some_machine postfix/smtpd[23306]: warning: Illegal address syntax from somehost.domedomain[aa.bb.cc.dd] in MAIL command: A

Re: illegal address syntax

2014-08-21 Thread DTNX Postmaster
On 21 Aug 2014, at 20:04, Joe Acquisto-j4 j...@j4computers.com wrote: Please excuse the top posting, if that offends, as I am forced to use a web client that cannot bottom post. Easily. Here it is, only a bit obfuscated: Aug 21 13:18:07 some_machine postfix/smtpd[23306]: warning:

Re: illegal address syntax

2014-08-21 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 21.08.2014 um 19:52 schrieb 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. so then you are at your own learn to strip only what you *really* need to strip/mask well,

Re: illegal address syntax

2014-08-21 Thread Wietse Venema
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

Re: illegal address syntax

2014-08-21 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Thanks. We understood that the white space was at least the largest part of the issue, but since this setup was a replacement mail router for different mail system, which tolerated the white space, we were looking to make this change over as transparent to end users, even programmers, as

Re: illegal address syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 27/05/10 10:41, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm currently in the middle of watching a customer's mail.log file. He is trying to send an email to a lot of people at once (Something like 5000), however the logs don't reflect this. Instead I'm seeing: May 27 10:32:41 server1

Re: illegal address syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
too many errors after... raise the soft_error_limit and/or the hard_error_limit Ah! So my postfix server has a limit then. Where can I put these settings? In main.cf ?

Re: illegal address syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Jonathan Tripathy jon...@abpni.co.uk: too many errors after... raise the soft_error_limit and/or the hard_error_limit Ah! So my postfix server has a limit then. Where can I put these settings? In main.cf ? Yes, like almost all settings... smtpd_hard_error_limit = 1000

Re: illegal address syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Jonathan Tripathy jon...@abpni.co.uk: Even after removing those 2 address from the list, we are still getting the too many errors after RCPT from office1.domain.local[10.86.1.101] (Of course, the 2 email addresses aren't mentioned anymore) And what's it complaining about now (BTW, that's

Re: illegal address syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 27/05/10 11:11, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Jonathan Tripathyjon...@abpni.co.uk: too many errors after... raise the soft_error_limit and/or the hard_error_limit Ah! So my postfix server has a limit then. Where can I put these settings? In main.cf ? Yes, like almost

Re: Illegal address syntax

2009-08-17 Thread Eugene Vilensky
According to your problem report, the trading application sends:    MAIL FROM:'usern...@example.com' The correct SMTP protocol syntax is:    MAIL FROM:usern...@example.com Not even Sendmail accepts the incorrect syntax. You can easily view the command by logging the SMTP commands

Re: Illegal address syntax

2009-08-17 Thread Noel Jones
Eugene Vilensky wrote: According to your problem report, the trading application sends: MAIL FROM:'usern...@example.com' The correct SMTP protocol syntax is: MAIL FROM:usern...@example.com Not even Sendmail accepts the incorrect syntax. You can easily view the command by logging the

Re: Illegal address syntax

2009-05-28 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Aravind M D aravind.divaka...@yukthi.com: When we have done an smtp testing on one of our trading application server using the frontend smtp tool, we are not able to send out mails internally to the mailserver, as the mailserver is rejecting with the following error message. warning:

Re: Illegal address syntax

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Aravind M D: When we have done an smtp testing on one of our trading application server using the frontend smtp tool, we are not able to send out mails internally to the mailserver, as the mailserver is rejecting with the following error message. warning: Illegal address syntax from