Unable to send notifications to invalid e-mail addresses

[Koen Werdler <werdlerk@…>]

We are using Trac inside our corporate network. To send e-mail/notifications we are using the corportate SMTP server (Microsoft Exchange) since that's the only SMTP server we have access to.
However, since relaying is disabled, we can only send e-mails to people on the same domain by using the format "firstname.surname" as the e-mail address (thus, without any "@domain.com" part). If a fully qualified e-mail address is used the error "'5.7.1 Unable to relay for firstname.surname@…'" is returned.

With the upgrade to Trac 0.10.4 Trac now doesn't send e-mails to malformed e-mail addresses, effectively disabling all the notification functionality of our trac environment:

2007-07-20 09:39:41,877 Trac[notification] INFO: Email address w/o domain: benjamin
2007-07-20 09:39:41,878 Trac[notification] INFO: Invalid email address: koen.werdler
2007-07-20 09:39:41,878 Trac[notification] INFO: Invalid email address: ron.smits
2007-07-20 09:39:41,879 Trac[notification] INFO: Invalid email address: koen.werdler
2007-07-20 09:39:41,879 Trac[notification] INFO: Invalid email address: koen.werdler
2007-07-20 09:39:41,880 Trac[notification] INFO: Email address w/o domain: ron.smits
2007-07-20 09:39:41,880 Trac[notification] INFO: Email address w/o domain: koen.werdler
2007-07-20 09:39:41,881 Trac[notification] INFO: no recipient for a ticket notification

I haven't found any property inside trac.ini to have Trac send e-mails to malformed e-mail addresses anyway.

What would be the solution to this?

[eblot]

Enable "use_short_addr" in the [notification] section.

However:

• please ask installation questions to the MailingList first
• please specify which release of Trac you're using when you create a ticket (using the dedicated Version field.

[Koen Werdler <werdlerk@…>]

Sorry, I will ask in the MailingList next time.

Thanks for your tip!