On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Tony Finch wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Philip Hazel wrote: > > > > Well, yes, but you know what the command is, and why do you need to know > > about the following space? > > The discussion started off with me wanting to experiment with being > strict about syntax errors of the form MAIL FROM: <address>, which > Sendmail X does by default so I thought it might be a useful ratware > signature.
Interesting how one's perceptions change. My immediate reaction was "but the command is 'MAIL', so you should have what you want already", but when I went to doublecheck on the code that I wrote 10 years ago, I see that I treat the whole of "MAIL FROM:" as the "command". The RFC does seen to indicated that only one space is allowed between MAIL and FROM:, fortunately. Another thought occurs to me: your patch would also allow you to distinguish between HELO and EHLO, so that's another benefit. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
