Re: [Exim] Feature request - strip_trailing_dots_local

I assume you are referring only to 'local' mail as in that submitted
via a pipe to the 'sendmail' interface.

Many MUA transmit via SMTP, and exim would have no way of knowing an
MUA from an MTA on the other end..

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Phil Pennock wrote:

> strip_trailing_dots_local - like strip_trailing_dots, but only for mails
> submitted locally, not via SMTP.
>
> Spot the person who cut&pasted a hostmaster record from DNS, changed the
> first '.' for an '@' and forgot about the last '.'. Ooops ...
>
> Thoughts? And should it be a default? Or default if "-t"?
>
> Rational:
> trailing dots are valid in DNS, are used in example A.2.6. in RFC822,
> and follow the "be liberal in what you accept from humans principle,
> even if you're a pedantic git when dealing with machine-machine
> protocols". So the MUA->MTA interface should handle them. So Exim
> should strip them. But Exim has _no_ call to interfere with the SMTP
> Envelope as received from a remote MTA, save for explicit
> forward/rewrite rules.
>
> Or am I missing something? Aside from backspace?
>

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