On 9/24/2012 10:56 AM, Simon Effenberg wrote: > Hi, > > we have problems that Postfix is crying about "warning: Illegal address > syntax" for mails like: > > -b...@blub.org > > and i'm not sure if this is correct.. in the source code (it's quite > old but also a newer postfix (2.7) shows this) there is a strict_rfc821 > but i'm not sure if this one is what i'm violating against.. the rfc821 > looks like that a - is ok everywhere in the address.. does anybody > knows why postfix is complaining the mail address? > > /simon >
Postfix by default rejects addresses starting with "-" to protect other software that might use the email address as a command-line parameter. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#allow_min_user -- Noel Jones
