This is a good point. I've noticed this and tried to find a way around the problem with setting a default domain and creating an alias, but I've not been able to get any configuration to work.

Sam, is there anyway/any possibility this can be fixed on a next release?

Thanks,

D

Quoting "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <ca...@debian.org>:

| Hello. | | Courier don't accept "Postmaster" as mailbox, as required | by RFC 2821: | | Transcript: | | 220 localhost ESMTP | HELO localhost | 250 localhost Ok. | MAIL FROM:<Smi...@bar.com> | 250 Ok. | RCPT TO:<Postmaster> | 513 Syntax error. | RCPT TO:<Postmaster@> | 513 Syntax error. | RCPT TO:<Postmaster@catee> | 513 Syntax error. | | RFC: | | According to RFC2821: | 3.6: | - The reserved mailbox name "postmaster" may be used in a RCPT | command without domain qualification (see section 4.1.1.3) and | MUST be accepted if so used. | | 4.1.1.3: | "RCPT TO:" ("<Postmaster@" domain ">" / "<Postmaster>" / Forward-Path) | [SP Rcpt-parameters] CRLF | | 4.5.1: | > Any system that includes an SMTP server supporting mail relaying or | > delivery MUST support the reserved mailbox "postmaster" as a case- | > insensitive local name. This postmaster address is not strictly | > necessary if the server always returns 554 on connection opening (as | > described in section 3.1). The requirement to accept mail for | > postmaster implies that RCPT commands which specify a mailbox for | > postmaster at any of the domains for which the SMTP server provides | > mail service, as well as the special case of "RCPT TO:<Postmaster>" | > (with no domain specification), MUST be supported. | > | > SMTP systems are expected to make every reasonable effort to accept | > mail directed to Postmaster from any other system on the Internet. | > In extreme cases --such as to contain a denial of service attack or | > other breach of security-- an SMTP server may block mail directed to | > Postmaster. However, such arrangements SHOULD be narrowly tailored | > so as to avoid blocking messages which are not part of such attacks. | > | | ciao | cate | | | ------------------------------------------------------- | The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 | Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration | See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. | http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn | _______________________________________________ | courier-users mailing list | cour...@lists.sourceforge.net | Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users |