Dovecot LDA error - Invalid -f parameter: Invalid character in path

[Daniel Lange]

Hi Bruno,

Am 24.06.19 um 17:05 schrieb Bruno de Paula Larini via dovecot:
> I'm using dovecot as postfix's LDA. The version is 2.3.6.
> Last week some spammer set the envelope's FROM to "foo at bar@domain.com" 
> (with two @). While trying to deliver (as this one didn't hit the 
> spamassassin's score), dovecot said the following:
> 
> Jun 21 02:35:58 mymailserver postfix/pipe[29736]: ADA268195E: 
> to=<user at mydomain>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.08, delays=0.03/0.02/0/0.04, 
> dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (command line usage error. Command output: 
> lda: Fatal: Invalid -f parameter: Invalid character in path )
> 
> Which caused postfix to put it on the bounce list, but the spammer's 
> destiny don't really exist.
> 
> I could successfully mimic the spammer using telnet and putting two @ in 
> "mail from" address.
> I don't think this should be an expected behaviour, right? Or is this 
> some config based error?

No, this is a bug in Dovecot's logic tracked internally at Open-Xchange 
AG / Dovecot OY as DOP-1045.

Dovecot LDA and LMTP should just not care about remote address validity 
when delivering locally. It's not the LDA's business.

See <6386018f-22b2-9562-b5a2-36e81cbe2892 at debian.org> (bounces on 
invalid UTF-8 in localpart) for my error report from March.
There have been multiple other users asking about this on the ML, too.

Kind regards,
Daniel