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 cha

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 resolve_numeric

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 postfix/smtpd[4

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 h

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 h

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 u

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 SMTP client to inform th

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 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

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 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 DTNX Postmaster
On 21 Aug 2014, at 20:04, Joe Acquisto-j4 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: Illegal address > s

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: " T

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 i

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: " > This is despite "resolve_numeric_domain = yes" in main.cf, which I read was > supposed to fix bad from ad

Re: illegal address syntax

2014-08-21 Thread DTNX Postmaster
On 21 Aug 2014, at 19:32, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > Some mail from local (mynetworks) machines are getting mail rejected with > "warning: Illegal address syntax from blah in MAIL command: " > This is despite "resolve_numeric_domain = yes" in main.cf, which I read was > supposed to fix bad from

Re: illegal address syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 27/05/10 11:11, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * 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 ? Yes, like almost all settings... s

Re: illegal address syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Jonathan Tripathy : > 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 why one uses m

Re: illegal address syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* 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 ? Yes, like almost all settings... smtpd_hard_error_limit = 1000 smtpd_soft_error_lim

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 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 postf

Re: illegal address syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Jonathan Tripathy : > 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 postfix/smtpd[8144]

Re: Illegal address syntax

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

Re: Illegal address syntax

2009-08-17 Thread Eugene Vilensky
> According to your problem report, the trading application sends: > >    MAIL FROM:'' > > The correct SMTP protocol syntax is: > >    MAIL FROM: > > Not even Sendmail accepts the incorrect syntax. > > You can easily view the command by logging the SMTP commands (main.cf: > debug_peer_list = addres

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

Re: Illegal address syntax

2009-05-28 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* 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 f