Re: [Exim] Limited ipliteral usage

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Autor: Andreas Metzler
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A: exim-users
Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Limited ipliteral usage
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 03:03:30PM +0200, Andreas Rust wrote:
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> Could someone explain to me why sending to
>
> testuser@1.2.3.4 will give me unroutable adress, while (with having
> ipliterals on)
> testuser@??? works out fine?


> I guess it's some RFC thing,


Correct. See rfc2822 3.4.1. The former is simply wrong.

> but I don't see a reason for the first address not working out since
> e.g. an older sendmail installation of mine would accept it. :)


Sure. Old sendmail installations where open relays by default, let's
dulicate this, .... ;-)
              cu andreas