Stephen.Fischernt.gov.au
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 20:08:22 CDT

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owner-postfix-userspostfix.org wrote on 30/09/2005 11:33:19 PM:

| Stephen.Fischernt.gov.au:
| > Hopefully beginner postfix question:
| >
| > I have a server that insists on sending mail with the following
| > conversation:
| >
| > HELO server1
| > MAIL FROM: <server1192.168.1.12>
| > RCPT TO: bbellery
| > DATA
| > ....
| >
| > The problem I'm having is that server2 is choking on the MAIL FROM
line,
| > which doesn't accept an IP address.
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| 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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