Re: [Exim] Problem with rewrite rules

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Gerd-Christian Michalke
CC: exim-users, raphael
Subject: Re: [Exim] Problem with rewrite rules
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Gerd-Christian Michalke wrote:

> Be this from field:
> albert schmoll @ trucmuche.be (dédé) <aschmoll@???>


That is not a legal From: field. The @ character in the "phrase" part
should be quoted. The non-ASCII accented characters are also not legal
according to the RFC, though Exim will allow them.

> With this rule:
>
> *@trucmuche.be $1@??? Eh
>
> This will work only if there is either an @ or an accentuated letter (éàùë
> etc...) but not both of them.
>
> Is there something we can do about it ?


For a start, run some tests with -brw and possibly -bt to see if the
debugging information is helpful.


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