Re: [exim] Problems with colons in addresses

2011-06-07 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 7 Jun 2011, at 20:11, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On 08/06/11 02:14, W B Hacker wrote: >> j...@plonk.de wrote: >>> Jim Cheetham, 2011-06-07 11:55: A user managed to submit an email to a local_part beginning with a colon (:info@domain) Normally this would be rejected early on, bu

Re: [exim] Problems with colons in addresses

2011-06-07 Thread W B Hacker
Jim Cheetham wrote: On 08/06/11 02:14, W B Hacker wrote: j...@plonk.de wrote: Jim Cheetham, 2011-06-07 11:55: A user managed to submit an email to a local_part beginning with a colon (:info@domain) Normally this would be rejected early on, but their mail client managed to sneak the offending

Re: [exim] Problems with colons in addresses

2011-06-07 Thread Jim Cheetham
On 08/06/11 02:14, W B Hacker wrote: > j...@plonk.de wrote: >> Jim Cheetham, 2011-06-07 11:55: >>> A user managed to submit an email to a local_part beginning with a colon >>> (:info@domain) >>> >>> Normally this would be rejected early on, but their mail client managed >>> to sneak the offending c

Re: [exim] Problems with colons in addresses

2011-06-07 Thread W B Hacker
j...@plonk.de wrote: Jim Cheetham, 2011-06-07 11:55: A user managed to submit an email to a local_part beginning with a colon (:info@domain) Normally this would be rejected early on, but their mail client managed to sneak the offending character in by wrapping it in double quotes ... (":info"@d

Re: [exim] Problems with colons in addresses

2011-06-07 Thread jh
Jim Cheetham, 2011-06-07 11:55: > A user managed to submit an email to a local_part beginning with a colon > (:info@domain) > > Normally this would be rejected early on, but their mail client managed > to sneak the offending character in by wrapping it in double quotes ... > (":info"@domain) That

Re: [exim] Problems with colons in addresses

2011-06-07 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi > Normally this would be rejected early on, but their mail client managed to > sneak the offending character in by wrapping it in double quotes ... > (":info"@domain) Uncommon, but correct. > This then caused a paniclog entry, because I was using $local_part in a DB > lookup : "... and use

[exim] Problems with colons in addresses

2011-06-07 Thread Jim Cheetham
A user managed to submit an email to a local_part beginning with a colon (:info@domain) Normally this would be rejected early on, but their mail client managed to sneak the offending character in by wrapping it in double quotes ... (":info"@domain) This then caused a paniclog entry, because I was