Re: [exim] Problems with user and/or mailaddresses including…

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 05:56 +0100, NetServ-Support wrote:
> Exim does not accept mail addresses with a dash in the local part.
> "Unknown user" is written into the logfile.
> Dots (.) and underscores are allowed.
>
> example: tom-Hanks@??? would not work, but tom_Hanks@??? or
> tom.Hanks@??? works fine...
>
> How to fix this problem?

Run a debug session:

exim -d -bt tom-hanks@???

This is a configuration problem on the affected machine, not a generic
problem - there are literally thousands of messages in the list archives
where the sender has a dash (hyphen) in their address, as the list
itself is exim-users@??? and the envelope sender for the list is
exim-users-bounces+recipient.domain@???!

Graeme