(the sendmail call was missing angle brackets in the previous version of this 
message)

When called from the command line, Exim 4.69 rejects colons in the from name:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t -f foo: bar <[email protected]> [email protected] 

exim: bad -f address "foo:\ bar\<[email protected]\>": missing or malformed local 
part (expected word or "<")

Looks like someone else ran in to this problem with exim 4.5:
http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1483999

I know I can work around the problem by quoting the text ("foo: bar").

However, Postfix allows this. Is exim’s opinion:
A: that this is malformed, and exim is correct in rejecting it?
B: that this is malformed, but exim should handle it anyway? (i.e. this is a 
bug)

Or is this simply fixed in a newer version of exim? (I’m not root on this 
machine and can’t upgrade.)



Paul

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