Re: [Exim] data syntax ACL: is syntax really bad?

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Author: Marc MERLIN
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] data syntax ACL: is syntax really bad?
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:46:13AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Yes. Single quotes have no special meaning in RFC 2822 (or 822). So that
> is syntactically valid according to those RFCs. However, single quotes
> may not be part of a domain name for messages transmitted over SMTP.
> That is, they are forbidden by RFC 2821.


Thanks for clearing that up.

> > (I _think_ exim 4.10 used to allow them)
>
> I hope not!


Maybe my ACLs weren't working properly with 4.10, I can't say for sure
now that I upgraded.

Thanks for the answer
Marc
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