On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:57 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > John Horne wrote: > > I noticed a frozen bounce in our mail queue for a message which seems to > > have come from (envelope sender) > > '[email protected]'. > > > > As far as I can tell, the '.@' part of the address is invalid according > > to RFC2822. So why did exim accept it if it is syntactically invalid? > > You can find out in the manual, http://www.exim.org/index.html, how to tell > exim to > refuse non existing addresses and/or syntactically incorrect addresses. > Yes, I realise that but my question is why accept an invalid address in the first place? If I send a message with the address 'fred@@example.com' exim rejects it with a 'domain missing or malformed' error. That isn't something I have configured, it is exim recognising an invalid address. So why not do the same with '.@'?
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