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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