On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Robert Bannocks wrote:

> Hmmm..  The whilst your comments are correct there are a lot of broken
> mail systems submitting mail like this.  Many of them, as in this case,
> are very old and not suited to being changed!  

Eventually, all things must change.

> This one is running an
> ancient version of sendmail (a very good reason for putting it behind
> exim) and I think there is a wider need to cope with situations like
> this.

You might like to investigate the SMTP-time rewriting facilities, though 
I guess that won't help with such addresses in From: lines. But they 
could probably be caught by rewriting as well.

> If nothing else the differing behaviour of exim -bt and the SMTP
> dialogue needs addressing as this is confusing.

-bt and -bv test *recipient* addresses. Did you try -bvs?

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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