On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, David Sheryn wrote:
> Some of my users have mailling lists files of the format
>
> <J.Smith@???> John Smith
>
> which are accessed by use of the :include: directive in an alias file.
> Sendmail copes with this perfectly OK, but exim barfs. Do these people have to
> convert their lists, or is there are workaround (I have tried setting
> skip_syntax_errors to no avail) ?
Sigh. That isn't a valid RFC 822 address. If they had used a valid form,
such as
John Smith <J.Smith@???>
or
<J.Smith@???> (John Smith)
then Exim would be quite happy. Skipping syntax errors is no good
anyway, because it will cause Exim to completely ignore the address.
Philip
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