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Written by tek   
Friday, 30 November 2007 13:04
Just ran across one i have not seen before, so here it is. Testing out a mailserver and trying to find out how and why stuff is bouncing. Here is the message i was seeing when telneting onto port 25 from the outside AND the inside:
brain:/home/tek# telnet mail.example.com 25
Trying 67.100.xxx.xxx...
Connected to mail.example.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.example.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
HELO groovemaster.com
250 mail.example.com
Mail From: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax

This always worked in the past, not sure when but at some point there is another config variable i had implemented to filter spam and now its causing me grief with a few clients.

strict_rfc821_envelopes = yes
When this is enabled both mail
mail from: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and the
user part
rcpt to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it need to be enclosed in <> marks to that needs to read Mail From:
and the rcpt to:
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