Re: [courier-users] Invalid RCPT TO results in 513 Syntax error

[Marcus I. <mar...@gm...>]

On Jan 16, 2008 1:31 PM, Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DSM CD)
<Mar...@in...> wrote:
> To avoid confusion and/or misconceptions, let me state right now:
> I know that what I need to do is not SMTP-compliant, and in my
> opinion courier-esmtpd is doing the perfectly right thing here.
> (mostly because I'm a big courier-fanboy, using it since ca 8 years :)
>
> Ok, here's my problem:
> I've setup courier in a closed network (i.e. no connection to the
> Internet whatsoever), as a replacement for a quite old postfix/cyrus
> setup.
> Within this network, there are many programs/scripts which need to
> send mail to users, and do this using SMTP.
> Problem: Those programs usually send
> RCPT TO:<username>
> instead of
> RCPT TO:<username[at]domain>
> (the former results in "513 Syntax error")
>
> I'm fully aware that RFC2821 requires the latter syntax (apart
> from mails to <postmaster>), but I need to cope with those erroneous
> programs/scripts -- there are too many of them, written by too many
> people, to just go and fix them.
>
> So: Any hints how to do this? I wasn't able to find any config-option
> for this, and I don't exactly feel like hacking around in the source...
>
> tia,

Just a wild guess: have you tried putting the domain-name in
/etc/courier/defaultdomain ?

Best regards
Marcus