[Dovecot] sieve vacation messages trouble

Stéphane Cottin stephane.cottin at vixns.com
Tue Jun 30 23:37:03 EEST 2009


Le 30 juin 09 à 16:26, Steffen Kaiser a écrit :

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> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Stéphane Cottin wrote:
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>> sieve vacation replies are rejected by gmail with a "555 5.5.2  
>> Syntax error".
>
> This looks like a SMTP error. What does your local SMTP server logs?
> Sieve uses the local "sendmail" binary to transmit the message.
>
>> The return path is set to "<>", I think this is why this error is  
>> triggered by gmail.
>
> Hmm, you mean gmail as in Google Mail server?
> If so, I doubt it. <> is the RFC null sender for DSNs to prevent  
> mail looping. However, many MTAs block DSNs to non-local recipients  
> right away.
>
> Anyway, <> should not cause a syntax error.

In my case it was <"<>"@hostname.domainname>

Fixed in qmail-inject, ask me in private for the hack if interested as  
it's a bit off-topic.

Bye

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> Bye,
>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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