Hi, We have a webmail system here that is generating emails in certain circumstances containing "To" headers such as:
To: "Carol Arlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Note the newline between, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" We've just come across a remote exim installation not under our own control that has rejected one of these messages. We contacted them and asked for the log entry and it looks like this: 2007-12-03 11:46:50 1Iz9lC-0000h4-Ay H=weed.lut.ac.uk [158.125.1.226] F=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rejected after DATA: Syntax error in headers: malformed address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n may not follow [EMAIL PROTECTED] : failing address in "To:" header is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe that the config that will be causing this will be along the lines of: deny !verify = header_syntax Ignoring for a second whether or not such a config snippet is a good/safe thing to do, can you tell me if Exim is *right* in suggesting that the To header quoted above does not adhere to the RFC's? I have contacted the vendor and it is their opinion that the newline is allowed in that location according to RFC2822 and that the problem is in Exim. Actually... Should I be concentrating on the newline at all? Is the problem that the address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rather than: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Or is the problem something entirely different? Mike -- ## List details at http://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/
