fast fails going to Reply-To: instead of Return-Path:

Bosco So Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:57:32 -0800

As I noted in a previous message, I'm finding that James is responding to some fast fails with a bounce message to the email address specified in the Reply-To: header rather than the Return-Path. Is this behavior correct? (In my app, the Reply-To:, Return-Path:, and From: are all different.)

I can reproduce this by sending a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". (Yes, that domain is mine.) A hand-telnet'ed SMTP session looks like this:

   220 m1.dnsix.com ESMTP Exim 4.24 Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:24:44 -0800
   helo thames.dnsalias.org
   250 m1.dnsix.com Hello thames.dnsalias.org [67.112.120.26]
   mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   250 OK
   rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   550 unrouteable address
   quit

Here's what the various James logs say when I spool my VERPed message through James:

   ==>
   james/james-2.2.0a15/apps/EmailNow2/logs/mailet-2004-01-17-00-59.log <==
   17/01/04 01:41:24 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Attempting
   delivery of Mail1074332484416-10-to-profitfrompeace.org to host
   m1.dnsix.com. to addresses [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   17/01/04 01:41:25 INFO  James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Permanent
   exception delivering mail
   (Mail1074332484416-10-to-profitfrompeace.org:
   javax.mail.SendFailedException: Invalid Addresses;
     nested exception is:
           class javax.mail.SendFailedException: 550 unrouteable address

           at
   com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.rcptTo(SMTPTransport.java:926)
           at
   com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:389)
           at
   org.apache.james.transport.mailets.RemoteDelivery.deliver(RemoteDelivery.java:346)
           at
   org.apache.james.transport.mailets.RemoteDelivery.run(RemoteDelivery.java:797)
           at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

17/01/04 01:41:25 INFO James.Mailet: RemoteDelivery: Sending failure message Mail1074332484416-10-to-profitfrompeace.org 17/01/04 01:41:25 INFO James.Mailet: ReplyHandlerMailet: Handling reply: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/01/04 01:41:25 INFO James.Mailet: ReplyHandlerMailet: this reply is actually a bounce 17/01/04 01:41:25 INFO James.Mailet: ReplyHandlerMailet: state: transport 17/01/04 01:41:25 INFO James.Mailet: ReplyHandlerMailet: changed recip to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/01/04 01:41:25 INFO James.Mailet: BounceHandlerMailet: bouncing all: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   ==>
   james/james-2.2.0a15/apps/EmailNow2/logs/james-2004-01-17-00-59.log <==
   17/01/04 01:41:25 WARN  James: Mail to be bounced does not contain a
   Return-Path header.

I wrote both ReplyHandlerMailet and BounceHandlerMailet. When I first wrote the former, I noticed that some badly addressed emails were marked in the database as replies. After I figured out that these fast fails were getting sent to the Reply-To: address, I added a tweak in the ReplyHandlerMailet to check the From: field of the bounced message for the James postmaster. If found, then I change To: header of the message from reply.blahblahblah to owner.blahblahblah and skip normal reply handling. Next in the chain is the BounceHandler mailet which notices the owner.blahblahblah To: header and records a bounce record in the database.

Lastly, I don't know why I'm always getting the "Mail to be bounced does not contain a Return-Path header".

-- Bosco

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