Re: strange refused relay

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Neal Becker
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: strange refused relay
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Neal Becker wrote:

> Actually, I think I reported a similar one to this before:
>
> 1997-09-09 11:21:44 refused relay (host accept) to 'Travel-Clarksburg@???' from <TeresaK@???> H=ctelnt.ctel.com [204.255.251.5]
>
> I guess the "'" marks confused things. But isn't the message about
> refused relay inappropriate? Isn't it true that with the extra '
> marks the address is simply invalid?


Single quotes are not invalid in RFC 822 addresses. This is useful
(consider O'Reilly@???) but also confusing!

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