Hello, Pete McEvoy wrote: > Hi. > Ive got an application that needs to send reports daily, the application > has configuration options to allow the reports to be sent to more than > one recipient. Within the application this is configured by using a semi > colon to seperate the addresses. This results in the following: > > 10216 SMTP>> 250 mail.yerma.org Hello mail.yerma.org > [10.0.19.227] > 10216 SMTP<< MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> > 10216 SMTP>> 250 OK > 10216 SMTP<< RCPT > TO:<[email protected]>;<[email protected]> > 10216 LOG: smtp_syntax_error MAIN > 10216 SMTP syntax error in "RCPT > TO:<[email protected]>;<[email protected]>" > H=(mail.yerma.org) [10.0.19.227] malformed address: > ;<[email protected] may not follow > <[email protected]> > > When I point this out to the vendors of the application, they reply > saying it works everywhere else,
It probably works with MS mail servers. > this is a local problem at my end, and > point to urls such as: > > http://www.logicprobe.org/proj/logicmail/ticket/116 This URL is irrelevant to your problem, but suggests that indeed their application does not seem to respect standards. > > I know I an configure exim to allow this, I don't think so. > or create an alias within exim > to expand one email address to multiple, but in the interests of > pedantry, and also because the support team at the vendor are so > insistant that I'm wrong, can anyone confirm the correctness of exims > actions, and my reading of rfc2821, specifically: > > RCPT TO:<forward-path> [ SP <rcpt-parameters> ] <CRLF> > > The first or only argument to this command includes a forward-path > (normally a mailbox and domain, always surrounded by "<" and ">" > brackets) identifying one recipient. > Indeed, they are plain non standard. There can only be one recipient per line, unless negotiated in extensions (and even in this case it should be separated by a space).
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