Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, mb wrote:
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>>It's not my department--it's someone else who's trying to mail one of our
>>academics, and his department's Exim is blocking it--and their admins take
>>your default file as Gospel where they've no need to know otherwise!
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> Aarrgghh!!
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> Sigh. These checks were instituted, ISTR, at the behest of various Exim
> users who felt that being cautious is a Good Thing. I admit that I was
> thinking of incoming rather than outgoing mail - the default config is,
> after all, aimed at an "end system", not at a relay.
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> Anybody else on this list following this thread? Would it be sensible to
> change the block on "local part contains /" to "local part begins with /"?
I've done this to accommodate local users trying to send e-mail to other
sites that use "/" in addresses. However, I've added a third regexp to
reject addresses containing the string "/../".
John
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> (Not that it will help you, of course. Your relay already has the old
> config in place...)
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