Re: [Exim] square brackets in To header

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Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg
Date:  
To: Alexei Saveliev
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] square brackets in To header
According to Alexei Saveliev:
> Here is a part of exim log:
>
> Jul  4 15:22:09 stat exim[20264]: 2001-07-04 15:22:09 15HkjR-0005Gq-00
> rejected from natalie-tours.ru [195.239.36.35] <mail@???>:
> syntax error in 'To' header: missing or malformed local part (expected
> word or "<"): failing address is:
> \302\360\345\354\377-\310\342\340\355\356\342\356       [VREI]
> <time@???>
> Jul  4 15:22:09 stat exim[20264]: [1\19] 2001-07-04 15:22:09
> 15HkjR-0005Gq-00 rejected from natalie-tours.ru


Looks like the problem is the high ascii characters in the headers
which are illegal according to the standard.

> I've contacted people on the other side of wire and they do use some
> custom mailer
> and have only one argument "Other hosts recieve our mail fine".


Ah, a bright bunch of people I understand

> I've tried to send email with this kind of address thru sendmail host
> and it's passed.


Sendmail allows a lot of things that the standards don't

Anyway do you have headers_check_syntax set? What is headers_check_fail
set to?

Mike.