P.S. No, the culprit is the apostrophe in auth login-name: > A=login_server:#xxxyyyy'uuss+zzz
> server_condition = ${run{/bin/sh -c "echo -e '$auth1\n$auth2' | > /usr/sbin/pwauth"}{1}{0}} You need to add: deny message = Restricted characters in address senders = ^.*['"$#] -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/