Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:
> I'm afraid that I feel this is really a fetchmail problem.
If you mean by that that fetchmail should be fixing the address, then
that's fine, but in case I didn't make it clear, fetchmail's not the
one producing the bad addresses, the bad addresses are coming from
upstream. The messages had reached my departmental mailbox with these
broken addresses. I guess ideally the department's MTA should be
refusing them...
> Nevertheless, Exim 1.90 has a feature whereby you can apply a
> special rewriting rule to incoming SMTP addresses before anything
> else is done to them. You could use this to rewrite
> <foo@.somehost.bar> to <foo@???> I suppose, to paper over
> this particular mess. Something like
>
> ^([^@]+)@\.(.*)$ $1@$2 S
OK, thanks, I'll try that.
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