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  1. James Server
  2. JAMES-87

James SmtpServer chokes on some Eurora messages.

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.2
    • None
    • SMTPServer
    • None
    • Operating System: All
      Platform: All
    • 16847

    Description

      An old version of Eurora has been observed to send this:

      >>>MAIL From:<example@foo.com> AUTH=<>

      Which results in this:

      06/02/03 16:00:59 INFO smtpserver: Connection from mail.foo.com (10.0.0.2)
      06/02/03 16:00:59 ERROR smtpserver: Error parsing sender address:
      example@foo.com> AUTH=<: Invalid character at 16

      And the client sees this:

      <<< 501 Syntax error in sender address

      At first glance, the problem is at
      org.apache.james.smtpserver.SMTPHandler.java:842, as follows:

      int lastChar = sender.lastIndexOf('>');

      It should probably read like this:

      int lastChar = sender.indexOf('>', sender.indexOf('<'));

      i.e. the next gt after the first lt.

      This was observed in the version of James you have in binaries:

      james-2.1.zip 30-Dec-2002 06:33 4.4M

      The Eurora version may be relatively obscure.

      Alway reproducible.
      James was running on w2k server, 1.4.1.something SDK

      Steps to reproduce:

      telnet to a james server ("server" in below) on port 25.

      A normal mail:

      <<<220 Hermes SMTP Server (JAMES SMTP Server 2.1) ready Thu, 6 Feb 2003
      16:44:02 +0100 (CET)
      >>>mail from:<foo@bar.com>
      <<<250 Sender <foo@bar.com> OK
      >>>rcpt to: <ian.sollars@server>
      <<<250 Recipient <ian.sollars@server> OK
      >>>data
      <<<354 Ok Send data ending with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
      >>>message
      >>>
      >>>.
      <<<250 Message received

      The problem child:

      >>>mail from:<foo@bar.com> AUTH=<>
      <<<501 Syntax error in sender address

      Actual result was "501 Syntax error in sender address"
      Expected result was "250 Sender <foo@bar.com> OK"

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            ian.sollars@gmx.net Ian Sollars
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