Thanks Wietse... 
log parsing in this cases is hard, so probably i will reject mails with spaces 
via sender_access since so far only spammers use spaces...



      From: Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org>
 To: Postfix users <postfix-users@postfix.org> 
 Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 12:40 PM
 Subject: Re: space character in email address
   
Pedro David Marco:
> Hi,
> i am seeing lines in postfix logs like this:
> postfix/qmgr[1084]: 955AE4009A: from=<cesar 
> burk...@server1.domainomitted.com>, size=10346, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> 
> please note the "space" in the user part of the from between cesar and burklez
> my understading was that no space was allowed in an email addresss...?
> am i right?

Space in the localpart is allowed, provided that it is quoted, as
in "cesar burklez"@server1... 

The logging does not show the quotes, but it probably should.

    Wietse


   

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