On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:29:09PM +0000, Graeme Fowler wrote: > OK, gloves off.
>
> On 01/02/2007 16:06, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >i will endeavour to track down the scope of this problem a bit
> >further, because i have just tried this:
> >
> >HELO localhost
> >MAIL FROM:<>
> >RCPT TO:llllllllllllltotallyfakeaddress@localhost
> >
> >and _that_ was accepted (!)
>
> In that case, YOUR copy of Exim is not checking against YOUR copy of
> Cyrus - or anyhting else, in fact - to see if the local_part is valid.
it's ok - i've located what the problem is, and <> is the _only_ thing
not dealt with, hard-coded, by exim4.
