On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 m.hampson@??? wrote:
> Can we have exim ignore errors in the aliases file(s) (as an option), while
> still logging the fact that there was an error.
I have added that suggestion to the list.
On Tue, 28 Jan 1997 David.Osborne@??? wrote:
> John Smith <jsmith@???>
>
> I had expected exim to only be interested in the address in the angle brackets
> but have seen a couple of problems with it objecting to odd characters in the
> comment part: one an octal 144 character (subscriber from Germany, so not
> surprising), the other a number of slashes in a format like "A User AB/CC DE/12
> FG/34 <auser@???>". In both cases, removing everything but the RFC822
> address, including the angles, allowed the frozen messages to be delivered.
Exim parses aliases as RFC 822 addresses. An address of the form
A User AB/CC DE/12 FG/34 <auser@???>
is legal, and should be accepted. In fact, I have just tested it, and it
seems to work. Perhaps there were some other special characters? Note
that the part before the < is the "phrase" part, not the "comment" part
(comments are in brackets) and certainly odd characters might cause
problems there, as the syntax of phrases is defined by RFC 822.
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