On 7 Jun 2011, at 20:11, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On 08/06/11 02:14, W B Hacker wrote: >> [email protected] wrote: >>> Jim Cheetham, 2011-06-07 11:55: >>>> A user managed to submit an email to a local_part beginning with a colon >>>> (:info@domain) >>>> >>>> Normally this would be rejected early on, but their mail client managed >>>> to sneak the offending character in by wrapping it in double quotes ... >>>> (":info"@domain) >>> >>> That's not sneaking in, it's just quoting. His MUA probably dit it for >>> him. > > Very well -- then why does Exim reject the first form, but leave it up > to my configuration to reject the second form?
A local part with a colon that is not quoted in SMTP is a syntax error according to the RFCs so exim will reject it. If you quote the local part then its a valid local part. -- [ Nigel Metheringham ------------------------------ [email protected] ] [ Ellipsis Intangible Technologies ] -- ## List details at https://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/
