[EXIM] Allowing bad headers

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Author: Chris Bayliss
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [EXIM] Allowing bad headers
We've recently switched from pp to exim (yesterday). One of the problems
we are currently having is that exim appears to be rejecting messages
with minor syntax errors in the header fields. Typically the types of headers
rejected are

To: My Staff List

From: <ITN News@???>

I appreciate that they are wrong, but it would be useful to lift these
restrictions (particularly in the first example).

Does anyone know how to do this? I've tried headers_checks_fail = false,
but the email is still logged as being rejected.

Chris Bayliss
Information Services
The University of Birmingham

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