Re: [EXIM] percent_hack_domains problem

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Author: Alan Thew
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: Exim List
Subject: Re: [EXIM] percent_hack_domains problem
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Alan Thew wrote:
>
> > No new options :-)
>
> ... but new code :-(


In my personal opinion, this is not a major issue and people using the %
hack to relay via us is .
>
> > All I want is for
> >
> > user%some-mach.liv.ac.uk@??? to work
> >
> > and for
> >
> > user%some-remote.site@??? to fail
> >
> > My original settings allowed example 2 through.
>
> ... new code because you are asking for the local_part to be picked apart at
> SMTP input time in order to be checked, whereas at the moment it doesn't
> get picked apart until delivery time when Exim is in the business of
> figuring our what to do with it.
>
> Maybe I can tie this in with verification somehow. Anyway, I will look
> at it at some point, but probably not for the next release, which I'm
> trying to document and stabilize.
>

It's OK, people here will have to live without it for a while :-)

Thanks for clarifying the issue.

Alan Thew


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