Dick Visser:
> If people sent mail to <dick+96 AT te8766rena DOT nl> their mailer will
> display the actual
> offending address plus the reason:
>
> 4.1.2 <dick+96 AT te8766rena DOT nl>: Recipient address rejected: Domain not
> found
>
> If they sent mail to stuff like <dick+96@> you only get back the reason, and
> not the
> offending address:
>
> 5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax
Postfix generally does not log or echo commands with bad syntax,
commands that don't exist, or commands received out of order.
> This is not a problem when you send mail to one or two recipients, but my
> dear users
> sometimes send mail to tens or even hundreds of addresses at once.
> When they get a "5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax", they have to check all
> the addresses
> in their MUA one by one to find the offending one.
>
> Is it possible to configure postfix to display the offending address in case
> of "bad
> recipient syntax" (and maybe other cases)?
For the sake of robustness, if the client sends garbage, then the
server should send short replies, not containing any of that garbage.
Otherwise you can get amplification, things out of sync, and whatnot.
This was actually a conscious decision.
Wietes
> Running postfix-2.3.3 here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Dick Visser
> TERENA IT Support Officer
>
> TERENA Secretariat
> Singel 468 D, 1017 AW Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
> T +31 20 530 44 88 F +31 20 530 44 99
> visser AT terena DOT org | www.terena.org
>
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