Re: [exim] header_sender test and group addresses

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] header_sender test and group addresses
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:

> I want to be 100% sure before rejecting e-mail from Amadeus :-), and
> according to my reading of RFC 2822, a group address is perfectly valid
> in Reply-To:
>
> reply-to        =       "Reply-To:" address-list CRLF
> address-list    =       (address *("," address)) / obs-addr-list
> address         =       mailbox / group
> group           =       display-name ":" [mailbox-list / CFWS] ";"
>                         [CFWS]

>
> this occured with Exim 4.43, but I don't think this behaviour has been
> changed in newer versions. looks like only a small patch is needed to
> do this right, since there is a nice Boolean parse_allow_group already.


At first glance, I think I agree with you, but I'll check this out in
more detail later.


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