[Exim] Re: is this allowed email address in exim?

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Re: is this allowed email address in exim?
On 2004-06-20 Sandro Rafael <sandro.rafael@???> wrote:
> i removed / in


> deny local_parts = ^.*[@%!/|] : ^\\.


> of my exim.conf


> and its working now; i'm able to received email now from such address.


> but is there any harm in doing so?

[...]


Depends on what you do with the mail. e.g it will fail horribly if you
try to deliver to /var/mail/$local_part because "/" cannot be used as
part of filenames. (And that is probably the main reason for
disallowing "/".)
              cu andreas
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