Re: [EXIM] Invalid characters in recipient addresses?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David Osborne
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Invalid characters in recipient addresses?
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, David Osborne wrote:

> Yes, I realise that, but the user types the recipient address into a To field
> when composing a message and doesn't do anything with the envelope address. I
> suppose what I was asking was: if non-printing characters somehow got from
> what the user typed into the envelope address their MUA created, would Exim
> show these non-printing characters in the log by perhaps escaping them into
> hex or octal?


Non-printing characters in a domain would get rejected as syntactically
invalid. In a local part, they would also get rejected unless supplied
inside double quotes. I therefore don't think there were any such things
in the addresses you quoted.

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