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I've got a problem with laposte.net free french email provider : since several weeks now, their smtp servers don't accept empty MAIL FROM anymore. Here is a sample telnet session :

$ telnet smtpz4.laposte.net 25
Trying 194.117.213.1...
Connected to smtpz4.laposte.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 lpn-prd-vrin016 ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
HELO XX.XXXXX.XXX
250 lpn-prd-vrin016
MAIL FROM:<>
501 5.0.1 Emetteur invalide. Invalid Sender. LPN007_403
421 4.7.0 lpn-prd-vrin016 Error: too many errors
Connection closed by foreign host.

I know that it is mandatory to accept these emails, and I've contacted them several times, without any luck.

The problem for me is for mailman mailing lists : as the messages are sent with an empty MAIL FROM, they are all rejected for laposte.net adresses (other domains work fine).

Do you know a workaround, either as a Mailman configuration option or maybe with a Postfix specific rewrite rule, to change the empty MAIL FROM for mails sent to this domain ?

EDIT : Here is the complete headers of a mail sent by Mailman (version 2.1.15 on my system) :

From - Wed Oct 15 17:08:30 2014
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys: 
Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON>
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by ww.xxxxx.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85104248A2
for <[email protected]>; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 12:02:34 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from ns279475.ip-91-121-90.eu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by ww.xxxxx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E342082D;
Sun, 12 Oct 2014 12:02:33 +0200 (CEST)
X-Original-To: [email protected]
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: from [IPv6:2a01:e34:ec12:8fe0:cd70:60bd:95b3:1f48] (unknown
[IPv6:2a01:e34:ec12:8fe0:cd70:60bd:95b3:1f48])
(Authenticated sender: xxxxxx)
by ww.xxxxx.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 024CC2082D
for <[email protected]>; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 12:02:04 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 12:02:03 +0200
From: =?UTF-8?B?V2VibWFzdGVyIMOJY29sZSBkZSBsYSBSaXpl?=
<[email protected]>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [email protected]
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080100040705040508010509"
X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 12:02:32 +0200
Subject: [xxxx xxxxx] xxxxxxxxxxx
X-BeenThere: [email protected]
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: <rize.infos.xxxxx.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://xxxxx.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/rize.infos>;,
<mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]>
List-Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://xxxxx.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rize.infos>;,
<mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: [email protected]
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  • I don't understand why you state mailman send email with MAIL FROM <>, AFAIK mailman would use <listname-bounces> as MAIL FROM value.
    – masegaloeh
    Oct 24, 2014 at 12:57
  • In my mail.log file mailman seems to send mails with MAIL FROM:<>, like this : postfix/qmgr[6225]: BAFA124577: from=<>, size=15428, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
    – juba
    Oct 24, 2014 at 13:32
  • Could you edit the question and adding the full header of email sent by mailman? Also please provide information about mailman version in your host
    – masegaloeh
    Oct 24, 2014 at 13:38
  • @masegaloeh Question edited.
    – juba
    Oct 24, 2014 at 13:51

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Have a look at the PCRE map for Postfix. It allows you to define mail from rewrites for addresses based on a regular expression.

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