On Fri, 19 May 2000, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> | is a valid character in a local part as far as I know.
Yup. See the comments in the Exim manual about recognizing pipes in
alias files.
> |address isn't a problem, exim doesn't pass things to shell unless you
> make it do that, and if you do you have to be careful about characters
> in local parts.
Quite. A local part in an incoming address beginning with | doesn't
cause Exim to treat it as a pipe command. That would be a Really Silly
thing to do, wouldn't it? Deliveries to pipe (and files) can occur only
as a result of aliasing or forwarding or filtering.
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