Re: [EXIM] Local part starting with a dot

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Elena Blanco wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how to persuade Exim to handle an address where the
> local part starts with a dot, eg .first.last@??? ? At the moment
> Exim 2.05 send back a 501 when it sees an address of this form:

Wait for the next release (before Christmas). I have bowed to pressure
to make Exim compatible with Another MTA on this point. It does,
however, violate the RFCs.

If you are desperate, you can run the 2.054 testing release, which has
this in.

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