Re: Strangeness

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>]

If the MAIL FROM: <> is like that, then it shouldn't be generating a bounce at
all....IIRC...  Because that's the address used to short-circuit error bounce
loops.

Saxon Jones wrote:

> I have a strange issue that I notice on Solaris 8/SPARC (I tested it on
> FreeBSD/x86 and the problem does not exist).  I use 2.99.55, and I also
> tried patch #1 but it didn't help.
>
> It seems that ZMailer isn't parsing email addresses quite like I'd expect it
> to.  When a MAIL FROM:<> is received, ZMailer would try to reply to that
> address with a bounce (when appropriate).  It seems that the <> are not
> being stripped from the address, because the bounces are addressed to  <<>>.
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem, and possibly know of any solutions?
> I've patched the sources to check not only for an empty email address, but
> also one that is "<>" in errormail.c, and this has skirted the issue for us,
> but I want to actually fix the problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
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