On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, m.hampson wrote:
> What is current practise with regards to accepting (and converting)
> UUCP style addressing. The whole area has me confused. Should EXIM
> be accepting this message....
Exim is an Internet Mailer (that's what the "im" stands for). It does
not accept bang-path addresses. See "Limitations", section 1.1 of the
manual - I do state it up front!
You can fudge round this to a small extent by using the rewriting
facilities. First you have to allow it to accept unqualified addresses
from some set of hosts, by setting one or more of the
{sender,receiver}_unqualified_{hosts,nets} options. That will cause an
incoming address of the form a!b to be qualified with your domain and
become a!b@???. Then you set up a rewriting rule to turn that
into b@a. This works only for simple cases with a single ! of course,
though I suppose you could put in a few rules to cope with 2, 3, or any
explicit number of ! characters. It also works only when you are sending
stuff on to hosts that accept domain-style addressing.
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