rejected email

[Plough]

I know someone will know why this is happening. Firstly my provider Telpacific are blamming optus for none of my emails comming through (from my mobile)to my telpacific address. They used to but just stopped a few weeks ago. I can send to other non telpacific address no problem, but if I send to my zgeek address which is forwarded to telpacific it gets stoped as well.

The following is some dribble they sent me.

2004-02-13 16:07:37 1ArVY9-0006H9-27 H=(server) [203.122.97.166] F
=<plough@telpacific.com.au> rejected after DATA: malformed address: >\n may
not follow <61410568213@optusmobile.com.au>: failing address in "To" header
is: <61410568213@optusmobile.com.au>>
Envelope-from: <plough@telpacific.com.au>
F From: "Plough" <plough@telpacific.com.au>
2004-02-13 16:10:40 1ArVb5-0007Kd-T0 H=(server) [203.122.97.166] F
=<plough@telpacific.com.au> rejected after DATA: malformed address: >\n may
not follow <61410568213@optusmobile.com.au>: failing address in "To" header
is: <61410568213@optusmobile.com.au>>

[thingy]

Looks like the phone may be putting extra characters in the "to" field that some ISP's mail servers are able to ignore but others can't. I get this a lot at work (especially for people with an apostrophe in their name - some mail servers don't mind it, others can't stand it). I'd be more inclined to blame the phone if anything. If you set a computer up with the same details as the phone to send/receive, I bet it works. I'd be talking to the mobile dealer and asking about firmware updates.

[Plough]

ah ok thanks for that.
Could you point out the extra bit that it puts in please?

[void*]

Kinda hard to tell by the munged text they've given you. But this bit looks like it's the suspicious bit (lines broken to make it readable):

malformed address:
>\n
may not follow <61410568213@optusmobile.com.au>

and:

failing address in "To" header
is: <61410568213@optusmobile.com.au>>

Note the extra ">" at the end of the address. Check your phone addy book to make sure you have it plain (ie, your entry in your phone book is just the plain email and doesn't contain the > of any type). If it ain't you, then some mail gateway in the middle is adding it and stuffing you.

'course that may be all BS because they added the > when sending the trace to you. Worth pointing out to them otherwise.

[Plough]

I will check that and I will go into optus in person and send the emails while they are watching.