On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Marc Haber wrote:
> This is a good idea. Do I see correctly that this director would be
> needed for almost every locally delivering system that uses
> $local_part to determine the maildrop's location in the file system?
No, because in "simple" configurations the mail is rejected because the
local part containing a slash is not a local account. It's only if you
start using $local_part to look at files while routing, before checking
for a local account, that this becomes a problem.
> I'd like to see something like this in the manual or the FAQ.
In Exim 4 I have in fact set up the default ACL configuration to bounce
local parts containing @ % and / at SMTP verification time. There will
therefore be some documentation about this in due course...
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