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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 21:08:22 EDT
wrote on 30/09/2005 11:33:19 PM:
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| > Hopefully beginner postfix question:
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| > I have a server that insists on sending mail with the following
| > conversation:
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| > HELO server1
| > MAIL FROM: <>
| > RCPT TO: bb at ellery
| > DATA
| > ....
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| > The problem I'm having is that server2 is choking on the MAIL FROM
line,
| > which doesn't accept an IP address.
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| The address form is invalid. There is no documentation that says
| Postfix accepts this invalid address form. Postfix >= 2.1 always
| rejects it, and this is currently not configurable.
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| The correct address form, server1@[192.168.1.12], will be accepted.
Ah, I missed the "[...]" when reading the rfc. I'll take this back to the
people that make the appliance box and see if they have a fix for it.
| > This server is going to be an internal machine and is used only for
| > monitoring. I'm not terribly concerned about securing the postfix
| > configuration at the moment.
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| Someone can donate a config parameter that allows numeric domains.
| It happens in trivial-rewrite/resolve.c, but there may be other
| places that block numeric domains that I do not recall off-hand.
If I get frustrated enough to do this, I'll post it here. It's probably
not a sustainable solution for our site though.
Thanks,
Stephen
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