On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Alan Thew wrote:
>
>> Philip suggested a while ago:
>>
>> new_address = ${quote:${local_part}}@???
>>
>> as the answer to a smartuser issue where quotes were stripped on a local
>> part of the form "a*b"@domain
>>
>> Would using $original_local_part without $quote be better or the same
>> here (or worse), given that most $local_part values will be OK?
>
>Worse. A local part that needs quotes but doesn't have them is illegal.
>Using quote puts in quotes only if it contains anything other than
>alphamerics, underscore, dot, or hyphen.
>
OK, the $local_part had quotes to start with but lost them by the time
the smartuser transport was used (exim 1.92).
I'll add $quote . Thanks
Alan Thew
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