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Author: Stanislaw Halik
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Literal '.' in local part of an email address is causing exim to fail sending that email.
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Arnold Levy wrote:
> The question I have is how to get exim to send mail to an email
> address such as mine - arnold.levy@??? where there is a '.'
> in the email address before the '@' in the email address - this *is*
> a valid email address. It appears that exim is doing something with
> the '.' instead of interpreting it as a literal.


Apparently something else is causing the delivery to fail. Exim has no
special treatment for the dot; there seems to be no reason to do so.

# exim -bt arnold.levy@???
arnold.levy@???
  router = dnslookup, transport = remote_smtp
  host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com      [66.249.93.27]   MX=5 [snip]


Check the delivery log in mainlog, if it succeeds, it could turn out
that Gmail silently discards your message for anti-spam or other
reasons. When in doubt, post the relevant fragment of the log to the
list.

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