Re: [EXIM] An error message

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Julian
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] An error message
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Julian wrote:

> I got this a few moments ago, and am wondering if the remote mailer is
> broken, or if I should just add a trivial rewrite rule to stop it?


The remote mailer is not broken. The address is illegal.

> > Error in "to" envelope address:
> >
> >    <Salembier.Gerry@???.>
> >                   ^-illegal subdomain in domain


Domains in email addresses must not end with full stops. Because this is
such a common mistake, Exim has an option called strip_trailing_dot
which causes it to remove trailing dots from addresses. The option is
off by default.

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