The application is running in Docker container. I do not have this problem when running in a clean VM.
2016-10-18 21:26:14,495[nio-8080-exec-4] [INFO ] [com.xxx.mail.MailSender 102] - Sending from noreply@172.17.0.1 to xxx@gmail.com with subject Hello World
2016-10-18 21:26:14,517[nio-8080-exec-4] [ERROR] [com.xxx.mail.MailSender 107] - 501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax
I tried configuring /etc/postfix/main.cf to allow mynetworks to which I added this IP. Did not work.
I am running the app in an Alpine docker container