[ILUG] Postfix SMTP server - Solved

[Kevin Philp]

The problem was a piece of spam that Fetchmail would not download because of 
the bad address. Of course it just sat in the queue until next time, throwing 
an error every time.

Kevin.

On Monday 25 October 2004 11:53, Kevin Philp wrote:
I have started getting the following error messages from our Postfix server.
Any ideas where the odd looking <M[5-]@address.com> is coming from?

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Postfix SMTP server: errors from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
Date: Monday 25 October 2004 09:00
From: MAILER-DAEMON at server.cybercolloids.office (Mail Delivery System)
To: postmaster at cybercolloids.office (Postmaster)

Transcript of session follows.

 Out: 220 server.cybercolloids.office ESMTP Postfix (2.0.6) (Mandrake Linux)
 In:  HELO localhost
 Out: 250 server.cybercolloids.office
 In:  MAIL FROM:<FETCHMAIL-DAEMON at server.cybercolloids.office>
 Out: 250 Ok
 In:  RCPT TO:<M[5-]@address.com>
 Out: 501 Bad address syntax
 In:  QUIT
 Out: 221 Bye

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