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#22 angle brackets around email address
E-MailRelay does not seem to like email address in the "mail from:" and "rcpt to:" fields to be "simple addresses" i.e. without angle brackets.
For example:
mail from: <example@example.com>
250 OK
however
mail from: example@example.com
553 mailbox name not allowed: missing or invalid angle brackets in mailbox name
RFC 822 allows simple addresses to be used.
I'm not sure that's right for SMTP. RFC 821 has this: RCPT <sp> TO:<forward-path> <crlf>, <forward-path> ::= <path>, <path> ::= "<" [ <a-d-l> ":" ]</a-d-l> <mailbox> ">". And RFC 2821 says "The second step in the procedure is the RCPT command. RCPT TO:<forward-path> [ SP <rcpt-parameters> ]</rcpt-parameters> <crlf>. The first or only argument to this command includes a forward-path (normally a mailbox and domain, always surrounded by "<" and ">" brackets) identifying one recipient. </crlf></forward-path></mailbox></path></path></forward-path></crlf></forward-path></sp>
This is a bug... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4473804/is-it-correct-that-sometimes-i-get-angle-brackets-in-from-field-of-an-e-mail-m/4473881
It's currently causing an issue trying to send from the LSA (LSI Storage Authority) software, as that software sends it without angle brackets and makes it so it doesn't work....
Can someone re-open this?
If you have to make emailrelay work with buggy software then you could patch the emailrelay source code and rebuild. I've attached a plausible patch for the 2.2 codebase.
Note that RFC-822 defines a standard format for email files and SMTP payloads, but not the SMTP protocol itself. Even RFC-788 from 1981 is clear on the SMTP protocol syntax -- refer to section 4.1.2 and to the examples throughout.
Looks great, I'll see if I can figure out how to get this compiled.
Tried hMailServer, looks like it works out of the box and accepts relay requests from LSI storage authority
Hi,
I'm facing the same issue right now with a scanner. It's sender field uses no brackets therefore SMTPRelay can't process it. I'm using the current version 2.6.1 for Windows. Is the patch.p1 still working for this version? Also I'm not too familiar with compiling, any recommendations for Windows?
You can use 2.6.1 on Windows, just add "--server-smtp-config=nostrictparsing".