Re: from address starting with a dot

In news:1177132092.703714.180000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
d <d3yuen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Recently we've been seeing messages that have a from address of a dot.

I think it's probably a misconfiguration on our server -- does anyone
have any experience in dealing with this ? If so, could you please
offer some advice as to how to deal with this ?

from mailq:
/var/spool/mqueue (34 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/
Recipient-----------
l3L3sTgZ027671 13177 Fri Apr 20 23:54 MAILER-DAEMON
(Deferred: 421 Message from (128.100.132.55)
temporarily defe)
<.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
l3L3PFS8012926 13789 Fri Apr 20 23:25 MAILER-DAEMON
(Deferred: Connection refused by northern-tech.com.)
<.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
l3L2pCkp027492 13575 Fri Apr 20 22:51 MAILER-DAEMON
(Deferred: 450 4.7.1 <.@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: Recipient
address reje)
<.@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


From the message:
Return-Path: <.@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Any thoughts is very much appreciated.

Copy and paste this (wrapped) command; please post the results of:

egrep -v "l3L2pCkp027492|l3L3PFS8012926|l3L3sTgZ027671" \
`awk '/^mail\./ {print $2}' /etc/syslog.conf `

so that you can see what the logfile states about the matter.

.

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