On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:05 +0100, Jethro R Binks wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, John Horne wrote: > > > 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 '.@'? > > I do not know the answer to this, however it was discussed a while back on > the list, and someone produced a set of ACL checks that did further > analysis than exim's default check. > Okay, thanks for this. I'll check the archives, and since you seem to have quoted the original poster it should be easy enough to locate the thread.
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