SonicWALL returns the error Response: 501 5.1.8 Bad address syntax on outbound rule generated messages

  • Document ID:7022486
  • Creation Date:20-Dec-2017
  • Modified Date:20-Dec-2017
    • Micro Focus Products:
      GroupWise

Environment

GroupWise 2014 R2 Support Pack 2

Situation

Undeliverable status messages from SonicWALL or other message transfer agents are returned

The GWIA log shows:
10:42:41 DB58 MSG 2593711  Command:  MAIL FROM:<Mailer-Daemon@dwcofs1>
10:42:41 DB58 MSG 2593711  Response: 501 5.1.8 Bad address syntax

This happens with outbound, rule generated GroupWise replies and forwards.

Resolution

This has been reported to engineering