Topic: Strange error in mail from root

[Stefano]

Hi all..

on a Sme 6.0.1 server of a customer of mine I'm unable to send mail via root & anonymous account..

I mean: when a process (cron, logwatch etc) send a mail to root I got (example)

########### quote ############
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at barzi.lan.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!

<root@#------------------------------------------------------------.barzi.lan>:
isp.smtp.address does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 501 RCPT Invalid mail address, invalid domain name syntax Giving up on isp.smtp.address.

--- Below this line is the original bounce.

Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 20710 invoked for bounce); 10 May 2005 16:36:56 -0000
Date: 10 May 2005 16:36:56 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@barzi.lan
To: root@#------------------------------------------------------------.barzi.lan
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at barzi.lan.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<my email address>:
Connected to isp.smtp.address but sender was rejected.
Remote host said: 501 FROM Invalid mail address, invalid domain name syntax

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <root@#------------------------------------------------------------.barzi.lan>
Received: (qmail 19459 invoked by uid 0); 10 May 2005 16:10:10 -0000
Date: 10 May 2005 16:10:10 -0000
Message-ID: <20050510161010.19458.qmail@barzi.lan>
From: root@#------------------------------------------------------------.barzi.lan
To: my email address

########### quote ############

As you can see, "from:" address is strange..

Any hint?

TIA

Stefano

[CharlieBrady]

As you can see, "from:" address is strange..

Any hint?

What does "grep '------' /var/qmail/control/*" say?

[Stefano]

What does "grep '------' /var/qmail/control/*" say?

Hi Charlie

here I am..

the syntax you gave me is not correct: I got an error, maybe because '-' char (the first one) must be escaped..

if I do:
grep '\-------' /var/qmail/control/*

I got:

[root@server root]# grep '\--------' /var/qmail/control/*
/var/qmail/control/badrcptto:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/badrcptto:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/defaulthost:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/defaulthost:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/mailrules.default:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/mailrules.default:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/smtproutes:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/smtproutes:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains:#------------------------------------------------------------
/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains:#------------------------------------------------------------

and everything seems to be ok..

BTW, at this moment I'm doing a full backup an then I will reinstall this server.. so, I'm just curious..

Regards

Stefano

[CharlieBrady]

What does "grep '------' /var/qmail/control/*" say?

...
/var/qmail/control/defaulthost:#------------------------------------------------------------
...
and everything seems to be ok..

No. There's something wrong with the defaulthost template. Do you have a custom template for it? Get rid of it.