Re: [Exim] exim -bs and illegal senders

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jochen Erwied
CC: Philip Hazel
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim -bs and illegal senders
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Jochen Erwied wrote:

> Actually I'd like an option for not verifying envelope-senders when being
> invoked as rsmtp.


Exim does not verify senders for rsmtp (aka -bS). But it *does* check
the syntax, which is what you encountered.

> A better alternative would be a list of additional
> allowed characters for sender_address_local_part, as in helo_allow_chars.


That would get awfully difficult. There are quoting rules for local
parts, to handle special characters.

> I helped myself replacing the link of rsmtp with a script which mangles the
> illegal characters to legal ones and calling exim -bS afterwards.


Or you could have made it quote them.

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