[imp] Redirect not working

Simon Brereton simon.buongiorno at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 18:58:46 UTC 2012


On 16 November 2012 13:30, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> wrote:
> Quoting Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>
>> Citeren Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>>>
>>>> Citeren Simon Brereton <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>>> Looking at your original message, it's actually the From envelope
>>>>>> address
>>>>>> that appears to be broken.  Which is set via your identities.  Which
>>>>>> means
>>>>>> your identity contains an invalid e-mail address.  Delete your
>>>>>> identity and
>>>>>> re-create.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just tried this and I get a 5.7.1 Bad syntax error from the mail
>>>>> server.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Same here. It is rejected because of a malformed MAIL FROM address:
>>>>
>>>>  postfix/smtpd[25829]: warning: proxy 127.0.0.1:10026 rejected "MAIL
>>>> FROM:<Arjen de Korte <arjen at de-korte.org>>": "501 5.5.2 Syntax: MAIL
>>>> FROM:<address>"
>>>
>>>
>>> For SMTP, the FROM address is obtained from the Return-Path address.
>>> This address is generated from the identity.  And this works fine for me.
>>>
>>> The only thing I can think of is that your default e-mail address for the
>>> default identity is *NOT* a bare e-mail address.  It can't contain personal
>>> information.
>>
>>
>> This indeed seems to be the problem. If I empty the field 'Your full
>> name:' in
>>
>>      Global Preferences -> Personal Information
>>
>> redirecting messages works. But if this field is not empty, it fails.
>
>
> This is not correct.  I have a full name defined and this works fine.
>
> The problem would be if your "default e-mail field" contains something other
> than a bare address.  I.e. this field can *NOT* be "Foo <foo at example.com>"
> (the current code won't let you enter this as a value).  Which makes sense:
> the personal part of the e-mail address should be built from the Full name
> field.

At least in my case, my identites in H4 and H5 are Identical - I have
nothing other than a bare email address in the address field.

As per Arjen's email if I remove the name from the identity, redirect
works, if I put the full name back, then it doesn't.

Simon


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