Re: refused relay question

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Author: Philip Hazel
Date: 1997-04-07 10:42 -000
To: Neal Becker
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: refused relay question
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Neal Becker wrote:

> 1997-03-31 14:29:17 refused relay (host) to 'D.Ganti@???' from
> <hostmaster@???> H=chai01.chai-pani.com [199.171.99.140]
>
> Apparantly, this message had the recipient within single quotes? Was
> it reasonable for exim to refuse this? If I had not configured relay
> stuff, would this have failed anyway (because of the quoting?)


Single quote is not a special character in RFC 822, presumably to make
it easy to construct addresses such as O'Malley@???.
Consequently, Exim decomposes 'D.Ganti@???' into

Local part:  'D.Ganti
Domain:      comsat.com'


As there isn't a registered domain called comsat.com' delivery to this
address will fail with the error "unknown mail domain".

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