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Question about empty MAIL FROM
On James Server 3.0 beta 4, we are seeing lots of these errors in the logs:
ERROR 10:31:12,847 | james.smtpserver | Id='234288323' User='' Invalid email
address while processing DATA.
javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Out of data at position 1 in '' in
string ``'' at position 1
at org.apache.mailet.MailAddress.<init>(MailAddress.java:159)
So I tried to reproduce it and while I can't be 100% sure this is what is
causing it, it does at least reproduce it:
[root@alpha log]# telnet 10.123.123.123 25
Trying 10.123.123.123...
Connected to alpha.nospam.com (10.123.123.123).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 alpha.nospam.com JAMES SMTP Server Server (JAMES SMTP Server ) ready
EHLO testcomputer.com
250-alpha.nospam.com Hello testcomputer.com [10.123.123.123])
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-PIPELINING
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250 8BITMIME
MAIL FROM: <>
250 2.1.0 Sender <> OK
RCPT TO: <aa...@nospam.com>
250 2.1.5 Recipient <aa...@nospam.com> OK
DATA
354 Ok Send data ending with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
Subject: Test
Test
.
451 4.0.0 Error processing message: Out of data at position 1 in ''
quit
451 Unable to process request
Connection closed by foreign host.
Is there a setting that will allow us to process emails with an empty MAIL
FROM, or is this just a bug that needs to be submitted somewhere?
Thoughts?
Aaron
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Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
Posted by Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>.
2012/6/26 Eric Charles <er...@apache.org>:
> On 06/26/2012 11:07 AM, Stefano Bagnara wrote:
>> "MAIL FORM:<>" is REQUIRED to work. This is the way DSN bounce are
>> delivered.
>> Mailservers not supporting this "sender" are listed by
>> http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/
>
> I was supposing that, but didn't take time to point the exact line in the
> RFC.
>
> We'd better throw a NonCompliantRfcException than a AddressException,
> especially when it is thrown by the MailAddress constructor.
Eric, we "CAN'T" throw an error or an exception. The empty address in
FROM is a COMPLIANT address and we have to accept it.
I'm not sure why that error doesn't happen after MAIL FORM but happens
after "DATA's ending dot", but sounds like a bug in needs for a JIRA
issue and a test case.
Stefano
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Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
Posted by Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>.
2012/6/26 Eric Charles <er...@apache.org>:
> I was supposing that, but didn't take time to point the exact line in the
> RFC.
This is all best summed up by section 5.2.9 of RFC1123, which says:
----
The syntax shown in RFC-821 for the MAIL FROM: command omits the case
of an empty path: "MAIL FROM:<>" (see RFC-821 Page 15). An empty
reverse path MUST be supported.
----
So, an empty email address is NOT a valid email address, but an empty
email address is valid in an SMTP conversation as a way to say "no
mail address".
IIRC James 2.3 dealt with this using null sender in case a <> was
received (so to not build an "invalid" empty address object).
Stefano
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Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
Posted by Eric Charles <er...@apache.org>.
On 06/26/2012 11:07 AM, Stefano Bagnara wrote:
> 2012/6/26 Eric Charles<er...@apache.org>:
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> Sorry to return you the question, but what does SMTP RFC
>> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt) tells about empty mails? (is it
>> allowed?)
>
I was supposing that, but didn't take time to point the exact line in
the RFC.
We'd better throw a NonCompliantRfcException than a AddressException,
especially when it is thrown by the MailAddress constructor.
WDYT?
Eric
> "MAIL FORM:<>" is REQUIRED to work. This is the way DSN bounce are delivered.
> Mailservers not supporting this "sender" are listed by
> http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/
>
> Stefano
>
>> In any case, it would be better to a more specific and throw an exception
>> with a correct readable message.
>>
>> Based on your finding, it will be good to open a JIRA on
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES or
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTOCOLS (it will depend how/where we
>> will fix it).
>>
>> Thx, Eric
>>
>>
>> On 06/25/2012 05:39 PM, Aaron Freeman wrote:
>>>
>>> On James Server 3.0 beta 4, we are seeing lots of these errors in the
>>> logs:
>>>
>>>
>>> ERROR 10:31:12,847 | james.smtpserver | Id='234288323' User='' Invalid
>>> email
>>> address while processing DATA.
>>> javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Out of data at position 1 in '' in
>>> string ``'' at position 1
>>> at org.apache.mailet.MailAddress.<init>(MailAddress.java:159)
>>>
>>> So I tried to reproduce it and while I can't be 100% sure this is what is
>>> causing it, it does at least reproduce it:
>>>
>>> [root@alpha log]# telnet 10.123.123.123 25
>>> Trying 10.123.123.123...
>>> Connected to alpha.nospam.com (10.123.123.123).
>>> Escape character is '^]'.
>>> 220 alpha.nospam.com JAMES SMTP Server Server (JAMES SMTP Server ) ready
>>> EHLO testcomputer.com
>>> 250-alpha.nospam.com Hello testcomputer.com [10.123.123.123])
>>> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
>>> 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
>>> 250-PIPELINING
>>> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>>> 250 8BITMIME
>>> MAIL FROM:<>
>>> 250 2.1.0 Sender<> OK
>>> RCPT TO:<aa...@nospam.com>
>>> 250 2.1.5 Recipient<aa...@nospam.com> OK
>>> DATA
>>> 354 Ok Send data ending with<CRLF>.<CRLF>
>>> Subject: Test
>>>
>>> Test
>>> .
>>> 451 4.0.0 Error processing message: Out of data at position 1 in ''
>>> quit
>>> 451 Unable to process request
>>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>>
>>> Is there a setting that will allow us to process emails with an empty MAIL
>>> FROM, or is this just a bug that needs to be submitted somewhere?
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
Posted by Stefano Bagnara <ap...@bago.org>.
2012/6/26 Eric Charles <er...@apache.org>:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Sorry to return you the question, but what does SMTP RFC
> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt) tells about empty mails? (is it
> allowed?)
"MAIL FORM: <>" is REQUIRED to work. This is the way DSN bounce are delivered.
Mailservers not supporting this "sender" are listed by
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/
Stefano
> In any case, it would be better to a more specific and throw an exception
> with a correct readable message.
>
> Based on your finding, it will be good to open a JIRA on
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES or
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTOCOLS (it will depend how/where we
> will fix it).
>
> Thx, Eric
>
>
> On 06/25/2012 05:39 PM, Aaron Freeman wrote:
>>
>> On James Server 3.0 beta 4, we are seeing lots of these errors in the
>> logs:
>>
>>
>> ERROR 10:31:12,847 | james.smtpserver | Id='234288323' User='' Invalid
>> email
>> address while processing DATA.
>> javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Out of data at position 1 in '' in
>> string ``'' at position 1
>> at org.apache.mailet.MailAddress.<init>(MailAddress.java:159)
>>
>> So I tried to reproduce it and while I can't be 100% sure this is what is
>> causing it, it does at least reproduce it:
>>
>> [root@alpha log]# telnet 10.123.123.123 25
>> Trying 10.123.123.123...
>> Connected to alpha.nospam.com (10.123.123.123).
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> 220 alpha.nospam.com JAMES SMTP Server Server (JAMES SMTP Server ) ready
>> EHLO testcomputer.com
>> 250-alpha.nospam.com Hello testcomputer.com [10.123.123.123])
>> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
>> 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
>> 250-PIPELINING
>> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>> 250 8BITMIME
>> MAIL FROM:<>
>> 250 2.1.0 Sender<> OK
>> RCPT TO:<aa...@nospam.com>
>> 250 2.1.5 Recipient<aa...@nospam.com> OK
>> DATA
>> 354 Ok Send data ending with<CRLF>.<CRLF>
>> Subject: Test
>>
>> Test
>> .
>> 451 4.0.0 Error processing message: Out of data at position 1 in ''
>> quit
>> 451 Unable to process request
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>
>> Is there a setting that will allow us to process emails with an empty MAIL
>> FROM, or is this just a bug that needs to be submitted somewhere?
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>>
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RE: Question about empty MAIL FROM
Posted by Aaron Freeman <aa...@sendthisfile.com>.
Eric,
Yes, thanks for the correction, I mean empty MAIL FROM (in other words "MAIL
FROM <>".
You are already handling the situation where a mail client/relay is not
passing a MAIL FROM at all properly (by responding with "503 5.5.0 Need MAIL
before RCPT").
I'll open the ticket and be more precise.
Thanks,
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Charles [mailto:eric@apache.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 1:34 PM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
>
> Hi Aaron,
> Yes, please open the ticket on JAMES.
> I suppose you mean 'empty' MAIL FROM, and not 'null'.
>
> In other words, in case of MAIL FROM command not issued, do we have to
> throw and exception, and if yes, which one?
>
> (sorry, no time atm to dig into the RFC)
>
> Thx, Eric
>
> On 06/26/2012 05:57 PM, Aaron Freeman wrote:
> > I'll be happy to open a ticket (though I haven't done one before so
> > don't hate me if I screw it up a bit) -- which component do you think
> > is more appropriate, JAMES or PROTOCOL? I'll essentially just include
> > this thread, including Stefano's responses -- I can't add much beyond
> > his statement that
> > RFC1123 5.2.9 says it's a must and that setting a null MAIL FROM is a
> > common technique for preventing bounce loops.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Eric Charles [mailto:eric@apache.org]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:04 AM
> >> To: James Users List
> >> Subject: Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
> >>
> >> Hi Aaron,
> >>
> >> Sorry to return you the question, but what does SMTP RFC
> >> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt) tells about empty mails? (is it
> >> allowed?)
> >>
> >> In any case, it would be better to a more specific and throw an
> >> exception with a correct readable message.
> >>
> >> Based on your finding, it will be good to open a JIRA on
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES or
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTOCOLS (it will depend
> >> how/where we will fix it).
> >>
> >> Thx, Eric
> >>
> >> On 06/25/2012 05:39 PM, Aaron Freeman wrote:
> >>> On James Server 3.0 beta 4, we are seeing lots of these errors in
> >>> the
> > logs:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ERROR 10:31:12,847 | james.smtpserver | Id='234288323' User=''
> >>> Invalid email address while processing DATA.
> >>> javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Out of data at position 1 in ''
> >>> in string ``'' at position 1
> >>> at
> >>> org.apache.mailet.MailAddress.<init>(MailAddress.java:159)
> >>>
> >>> So I tried to reproduce it and while I can't be 100% sure this is
> >>> what is causing it, it does at least reproduce it:
> >>>
> >>> [root@alpha log]# telnet 10.123.123.123 25 Trying 10.123.123.123...
> >>> Connected to alpha.nospam.com (10.123.123.123).
> >>> Escape character is '^]'.
> >>> 220 alpha.nospam.com JAMES SMTP Server Server (JAMES SMTP Server
> )
> >>> ready EHLO testcomputer.com 250-alpha.nospam.com Hello
> >>> testcomputer.com [10.123.123.123]) 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-
> >> AUTH=LOGIN
> >>> PLAIN 250-PIPELINING 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> >>> 250 8BITMIME
> >>> MAIL FROM:<>
> >>> 250 2.1.0 Sender<> OK
> >>> RCPT TO:<aa...@nospam.com>
> >>> 250 2.1.5 Recipient<aa...@nospam.com> OK DATA
> >>> 354 Ok Send data ending with<CRLF>.<CRLF>
> >>> Subject: Test
> >>>
> >>> Test
> >>> .
> >>> 451 4.0.0 Error processing message: Out of data at position 1 in ''
> >>> quit
> >>> 451 Unable to process request
> >>> Connection closed by foreign host.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a setting that will allow us to process emails with an
> >>> empty
> > MAIL
> >>> FROM, or is this just a bug that needs to be submitted somewhere?
> >>>
> >>> Thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> Aaron
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
Posted by Eric Charles <er...@apache.org>.
Hi Aaron,
Yes, please open the ticket on JAMES.
I suppose you mean 'empty' MAIL FROM, and not 'null'.
In other words, in case of MAIL FROM command not issued, do we have to
throw and exception, and if yes, which one?
(sorry, no time atm to dig into the RFC)
Thx, Eric
On 06/26/2012 05:57 PM, Aaron Freeman wrote:
> I'll be happy to open a ticket (though I haven't done one before so don't
> hate me if I screw it up a bit) -- which component do you think is more
> appropriate, JAMES or PROTOCOL? I'll essentially just include this thread,
> including Stefano's responses -- I can't add much beyond his statement that
> RFC1123 5.2.9 says it's a must and that setting a null MAIL FROM is a common
> technique for preventing bounce loops.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Charles [mailto:eric@apache.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:04 AM
>> To: James Users List
>> Subject: Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
>>
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> Sorry to return you the question, but what does SMTP RFC
>> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt) tells about empty mails? (is it
>> allowed?)
>>
>> In any case, it would be better to a more specific and throw an exception
>> with a correct readable message.
>>
>> Based on your finding, it will be good to open a JIRA on
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES or
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTOCOLS (it will depend
>> how/where we will fix it).
>>
>> Thx, Eric
>>
>> On 06/25/2012 05:39 PM, Aaron Freeman wrote:
>>> On James Server 3.0 beta 4, we are seeing lots of these errors in the
> logs:
>>>
>>>
>>> ERROR 10:31:12,847 | james.smtpserver | Id='234288323' User='' Invalid
>>> email address while processing DATA.
>>> javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Out of data at position 1 in ''
>>> in string ``'' at position 1
>>> at org.apache.mailet.MailAddress.<init>(MailAddress.java:159)
>>>
>>> So I tried to reproduce it and while I can't be 100% sure this is what
>>> is causing it, it does at least reproduce it:
>>>
>>> [root@alpha log]# telnet 10.123.123.123 25 Trying 10.123.123.123...
>>> Connected to alpha.nospam.com (10.123.123.123).
>>> Escape character is '^]'.
>>> 220 alpha.nospam.com JAMES SMTP Server Server (JAMES SMTP Server )
>>> ready EHLO testcomputer.com 250-alpha.nospam.com Hello
>>> testcomputer.com [10.123.123.123]) 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-
>> AUTH=LOGIN
>>> PLAIN 250-PIPELINING 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>>> 250 8BITMIME
>>> MAIL FROM:<>
>>> 250 2.1.0 Sender<> OK
>>> RCPT TO:<aa...@nospam.com>
>>> 250 2.1.5 Recipient<aa...@nospam.com> OK DATA
>>> 354 Ok Send data ending with<CRLF>.<CRLF>
>>> Subject: Test
>>>
>>> Test
>>> .
>>> 451 4.0.0 Error processing message: Out of data at position 1 in ''
>>> quit
>>> 451 Unable to process request
>>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>>
>>> Is there a setting that will allow us to process emails with an empty
> MAIL
>>> FROM, or is this just a bug that needs to be submitted somewhere?
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
>>>
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RE: Question about empty MAIL FROM
Posted by Aaron Freeman <aa...@sendthisfile.com>.
I'll be happy to open a ticket (though I haven't done one before so don't
hate me if I screw it up a bit) -- which component do you think is more
appropriate, JAMES or PROTOCOL? I'll essentially just include this thread,
including Stefano's responses -- I can't add much beyond his statement that
RFC1123 5.2.9 says it's a must and that setting a null MAIL FROM is a common
technique for preventing bounce loops.
Thanks,
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Charles [mailto:eric@apache.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:04 AM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Sorry to return you the question, but what does SMTP RFC
> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt) tells about empty mails? (is it
> allowed?)
>
> In any case, it would be better to a more specific and throw an exception
> with a correct readable message.
>
> Based on your finding, it will be good to open a JIRA on
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES or
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTOCOLS (it will depend
> how/where we will fix it).
>
> Thx, Eric
>
> On 06/25/2012 05:39 PM, Aaron Freeman wrote:
> > On James Server 3.0 beta 4, we are seeing lots of these errors in the
logs:
> >
> >
> > ERROR 10:31:12,847 | james.smtpserver | Id='234288323' User='' Invalid
> > email address while processing DATA.
> > javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Out of data at position 1 in ''
> > in string ``'' at position 1
> > at org.apache.mailet.MailAddress.<init>(MailAddress.java:159)
> >
> > So I tried to reproduce it and while I can't be 100% sure this is what
> > is causing it, it does at least reproduce it:
> >
> > [root@alpha log]# telnet 10.123.123.123 25 Trying 10.123.123.123...
> > Connected to alpha.nospam.com (10.123.123.123).
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 alpha.nospam.com JAMES SMTP Server Server (JAMES SMTP Server )
> > ready EHLO testcomputer.com 250-alpha.nospam.com Hello
> > testcomputer.com [10.123.123.123]) 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-
> AUTH=LOGIN
> > PLAIN 250-PIPELINING 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> > 250 8BITMIME
> > MAIL FROM:<>
> > 250 2.1.0 Sender<> OK
> > RCPT TO:<aa...@nospam.com>
> > 250 2.1.5 Recipient<aa...@nospam.com> OK DATA
> > 354 Ok Send data ending with<CRLF>.<CRLF>
> > Subject: Test
> >
> > Test
> > .
> > 451 4.0.0 Error processing message: Out of data at position 1 in ''
> > quit
> > 451 Unable to process request
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> > Is there a setting that will allow us to process emails with an empty
MAIL
> > FROM, or is this just a bug that needs to be submitted somewhere?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> >
> >
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Re: Question about empty MAIL FROM
Posted by Eric Charles <er...@apache.org>.
Hi Aaron,
Sorry to return you the question, but what does SMTP RFC
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt) tells about empty mails? (is it
allowed?)
In any case, it would be better to a more specific and throw an
exception with a correct readable message.
Based on your finding, it will be good to open a JIRA on
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES or
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTOCOLS (it will depend
how/where we will fix it).
Thx, Eric
On 06/25/2012 05:39 PM, Aaron Freeman wrote:
> On James Server 3.0 beta 4, we are seeing lots of these errors in the logs:
>
>
> ERROR 10:31:12,847 | james.smtpserver | Id='234288323' User='' Invalid email
> address while processing DATA.
> javax.mail.internet.AddressException: Out of data at position 1 in '' in
> string ``'' at position 1
> at org.apache.mailet.MailAddress.<init>(MailAddress.java:159)
>
> So I tried to reproduce it and while I can't be 100% sure this is what is
> causing it, it does at least reproduce it:
>
> [root@alpha log]# telnet 10.123.123.123 25
> Trying 10.123.123.123...
> Connected to alpha.nospam.com (10.123.123.123).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 alpha.nospam.com JAMES SMTP Server Server (JAMES SMTP Server ) ready
> EHLO testcomputer.com
> 250-alpha.nospam.com Hello testcomputer.com [10.123.123.123])
> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
> 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250 8BITMIME
> MAIL FROM:<>
> 250 2.1.0 Sender<> OK
> RCPT TO:<aa...@nospam.com>
> 250 2.1.5 Recipient<aa...@nospam.com> OK
> DATA
> 354 Ok Send data ending with<CRLF>.<CRLF>
> Subject: Test
>
> Test
> .
> 451 4.0.0 Error processing message: Out of data at position 1 in ''
> quit
> 451 Unable to process request
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Is there a setting that will allow us to process emails with an empty MAIL
> FROM, or is this just a bug that needs to be submitted somewhere?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
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