Re: [exim] / in userpart

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 20:47 +0100, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> a customer of us asks us to allow a slash in the userpart of a
> forwarder-target. The default configuration of exim excludes this
> character and even while I know how to allow it, I'm not really sure if
> I should actually allow it. Is this RFC conform? Is this good practise?
> We also allow # and + sign which doesn't look correct in my eyes but
> does work technically.

I would reject / as the first character (to avoid confusion with
filenames), but even that would conform to the RFC. Lotus Notes seems
to like to use / in the OU path, e.g.
HOMME_KJETIL/GT/SAPP/USIT/UIO@???

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Kjetil T.