[Greylist-users] Malformed envelope from address

Paul Davies paul.davies at jrc.it
Thu Dec 18 02:52:12 PST 2003


Cheers Evan, that did the trick, I set :

$check_envelope_address_format=0 

In the relaydelay.conf



Evan Harris wrote:

>See the $check_envelope_address_format setting.  It's probably more
>restrictive that you want, and should be disabled.
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>Or just disable that specific check in the envfrom_callback.
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>Evan
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>On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Paul Davies wrote:
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>>Hello All,
>>
>>Having a slight problem.....
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>>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)
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>>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
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>>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 .....
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>>Regards
>>
>>Paul
>>
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