Re: Exim and parsing "unusual" Envelope Froms

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Author: Alan Barrett
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To: Steve Davies
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Subject: Re: Exim and parsing "unusual" Envelope Froms
> wpuser%mhshost{"gwisedom1.gwisedom2:user"}@mhs.client.co.za

That's quite clearly illegal. It lexes to 

    atom quoted-string atom "@" atom "." atom "." atom "." atom


but the grammar does not permit an atom to be adjacent to a quoted-string
within an address.

> Is the SMTP address the gateway generates valid? Opinions around here are
> mixed.

If anybody thinks it's legal, let them show how to lex and parse it.

--apb (Alan Barrett)




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