[Greylist-users] Malformed envelope from address

[Evan Harris]

See the $check_envelope_address_format setting.  It's probably more
restrictive that you want, and should be disabled.

Or just disable that specific check in the envfrom_callback.

Evan


On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Paul Davies wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Having a slight problem.....
>
> Currently setup on our site with around 35,000 email's a day.. using :
>     Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8
>     Sendmail-8.12.6-159
>     Perl-5.8.0-115
>         Sendmail::Milter 0.18 (compiled against sendmail-8.12.10, i.e.
> dowloaded and copilet to create the obj .... structure)
>
> Whenever the email address "mail_from" contains an ' , then we get the
> following message :
>    Dec 17 09:20:36 greylist sendmail[3982]: hBH8KaUq003982: Milter:
> from=<email containing '>, reject=501 5.1.7 Malformed envelope from
> address: invalid punctuation characters
>
> The database shows no record of this email address,
> Whenever the rcpt_to contains a ', then it is ok.....
> Please help, because mail is not being delivered for people with an ' in
> their email address......
> Currently run another setup using exactly the same system software, but
> running SpamAssassin, with no problems .....
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Paul
>
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