Gregg, On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:16:26PM -0700, Gregg Berkholtz wrote: > I've begun receiving emails with quotes or slashes in the recipient's > address, and my exim daemon/config (v3.35) is accepting the addresses as > valid - to a point... My understanding was that such characters, within > email addresses, should not be treated as valid.
What makes you think that? As far as I am aware, pretty much anything is allowed in the local part. Technically certain things are not OK if they are unquoted (for example two .s next to each other). Quoting the local part should be used in this case. i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not technically correct, but ".test"@example.dom is OK. Similarly, "hello/world"@example.dom should be fine. Obviously the same does not hold for the domain part, which follows normal DNS rules. Others please correct me if I am wrong. We have the following in our exim RCPT ACL: deny local_parts = [EMAIL PROTECTED]/|] : ^\\. It might be what you need (or similar). Hmmm... just noticed you are using exim 3.35. Not sure this will work there. Sorry, you're probably on your own, as it's totally out of date and most people seem to have forgotten how to configure it now. HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
