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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