Re: [Exim] Clever spammer :(

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Sean Rima wrote:

> - -oilandgasremoval@???
>
> Any attempt by any of my antispam software (tmda for example) which
> tries to confirm or deny the existamce of the email address fails
> because exim sees the -oiland.... as a command line option.

it's like with any (well, most, at least) unix stuff, "--" serves as a
`pseudo option' that tells the software that stuff after this are not
options but other kinds of arguments


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