Re: [Exim] Re: Closing an open relay

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Derrick 'dman' Hudson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Closing an open relay
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:

> That sort of address is known as "percent hack" (I think it might also
> be called "source routing").


No, source routing refers to addresses like @x,@y,a@b. Yes, these are
valid (but essentially obsolete) addressing forms. Exim 3 used to have a
collapse_source_routes option for handling them, but Exim 4 always
collapses them (to a@b).

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