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

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Author: Sandro Rafael
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To: Andreas Metzler
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: is this allowed email address in exim?
thanks andreas.

how about in my case, wherein i have some local user and i have some
smart_host users.

is this can cause problem?

sandro

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:21:05 +0200, Andreas Metzler
<eximusers@???> wrote:
>
> 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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