Re: [Exim] Suffixes passed to LMTP transport (cyrus)?

At 11:58 +0100 Philip Hazel wrote:

>On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, mb wrote:
>
>> This might be useful for +local_domains; however, the default
>> configuration is stopping anyone anywhere mailing RFC2822-legal addresses
>> such as <mb/whatever@???>.
>
>No, it is not. It is stopping a default Exim configuration from
>*receiving* mail to such addresses from remote hosts. I argue that
>people who use / in their local parts know what they are doing, and can
>adjust their ACL appropriately so that they accept incoming mail that
>contains slashes.

Technically you are right, but there are a lot of departmental servers,
like mine, where a single Exim receives SMTP from local machines (which
are seen as remote hosts) and from the Internet at large..

>> If that is really what is intended, I will grudgingly have to change our
>> end. It might be the case that I'm only weirdo in town.
>
>X.400 addresses start with slashes... Did you say "weirdo"? :-)

That's where I stole the idea from ;)