Here's a wacky little bug/feature?? that cost me some sleep. One of my users
was having trouble sending mail from his M$ Outlook client to certain
addresses. The failure message in the log file looked like
failure:
Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_named_bm.arthurandersen.com???._(#5.1.2)
So I proceeded to double check the host name, my local DNS and everything I
could think of. Then just for kicks I thought I'd try sending a message to
that host. It worked fine. Now I was confused! Well a bit more testing
revealed that when the user set up their M$ Outlook address book they had
somehow added trailing spaces to the address.
I have a couple of questions. First is there any good reason that Qmail
isn't trimming the trailing (and possibly leading) spaces for the address?
Second is there anything I can do to prevent thin in the future?
Finally I'd suggest that someone look into changing the error message. It
looked to me like Qmail was just adding the ???'s to the end of the message
to indicate that it couldn't find the host.
--Dave
