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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