<NO_SPAM> tags in mail address

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Jan 6 20:27:46 UTC 2003


Christian Ejlertsen <chr.ejlertsen at has.dk> writes:

> While having setup a newsserver and getting it to run succesfully with a
> few authentication groups and such, I ran into a problem if using an
> mailaddress that contains forexample test@<REMOVE_THIS>test.org. The
> server returns this error, 441 From: address not in Internet syntax. Is
> there an option I can check or uncheck to enable this kind of posting?

That message is syntactically invalid because of the angle brackets, in
both Usenet and e-mail.  If you use some other characters, it should work
fine.

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