Re: [courier-users] Violates 821 ...

[Sysop <sy...@fo...>]

Christoph Puppe wrote:

> Salve,
>
> I'm not really happy. I'm trying to post mail by way of telnet and 
> always get 517 Violates RFC 821. Now I went and Cut'n Pasted the stuff 
> from the RFC but still I get the same error, so the way I've been 
> using telnet to test MTAs since a few years wasn't wrong at least ...
>
> From my tries:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> MAIL FROM:<admin@localhost>
> 517 Syntax error.
> MAIL FROM: "test" <admin@localhost>"
> 554 Syntax error - your mail software violates RFC 821.
> MAIL FROM:admin@localhost
> 554 Syntax error - your mail software violates RFC 821.
> MAIL FROM: "test <admin@localhost>"
> 554 Syntax error - your mail software violates RFC 821.
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> I've checked this again against postfix and qmail. Only my 
> installation rejects this. Could someone point me to the direction 
> where to look?
>
don't you need a  fqdm?  ad...@lo... ?