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Author: Tom Samplonius
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To: Marc MERLIN
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Is 'rcpt to: <domain.tld.>' legal (note trailing dot) ?
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> I know how to tell exim not to check the To: field. I may even be able to do
> rewriting at the SMTP level to remove the dot, but the question is should I?
>
> RFC 822 isn't detailled enough to say (the BNF doesn't describe what atom is
> supposed to be like)


Since we are talking about SMTP, not headers, RFC-821 applies. RFC 821
does not allow trailing dots.

However, you might want to look at the "strip_trailing_dot" option, as
this handles most of the trailing dot garbage spit out by today's
non-compliant software.

>
> Marc
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Tom