Re: [Exim] * alias

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 01:42:33PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Michael Stevens wrote:
> > And investigate other unusual addresses. My efforts to setup aliases
> > like '"a"' have failed so far... ie:
> > "@"@: michael@???
> I'm afraid I am not very sympathetic. However, I don't see why an alias
> line like
> @: michael@???
> would not work. Of course, you would have to send mail to such an

That worked, for some reason I expected to have to quote it in the
alias if I was going to quote it in real email.

> address as "@???. What on earth is the point?

The point is to investigate unusual but valid email addresses for 2
reasons:

1) personal amusement

2) a variant on spamtrapping -- valid addresses that are nevertheless
less likely to be picked up by people searching for them.