Re: [exim] dot at the end of domain

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Auteur: Philip Hazel
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À: Golovanoff Sergio
CC: exim-users
Sujet: Re: [exim] dot at the end of domain
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Golovanoff Sergio wrote:

> rejected after DATA: domain missing or malformed: failing address in "To"
> header is: XXX@???.
>
> i.e. '.' at the end of domain-part leeds to this error.
> But 'domain-part.' such a 'dill.nov.net.' is right address, isn't it?
> Or is there RFC about it?


Of course there's an RFC about it. RFC 2822. Email domains may NOT end
with dots. However, there's an Exim option called strip_trailing_dot
which allows Exim to process such broken addresses if you want it to.

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