Re: [exim] dot at the end of a local part

On 02/05/2008, ROGERS Richard <Richard.Rogers@???> wrote:
> Ted Cooper wrote:
> > ROGERS Richard wrote:
> >> exim-users-bounces@??? wrote:
> >>> I have just seen examples of mail with a sender address whith the
> >>> local part ending with a dot:
> > [snip]
> >> I added the following ACLs to our configs to avoid passing messages
> >> through to Exchange that it would then reject, leading to a bounce. I
> >> agree, it might be nice if there were a "strict address checking"
> >> option incorporated into Exim that would do this job. (For our
> >> purposes, an alternative would be to use the envelope sender address
> >> in the call forward that we use to verify the recipient, but I don't
> >> think that is currently an option either, is it?)
> > [snip]
> >
> > This isn't much of a help for you issue but more a question as to why
> > you would be running into it.
> >
> > None of my servers have ever accepted a local part with a dot
> > on the end
> > and I will never run into the issue because it's not an account name.
> > Why are you accepting local parts that don't have a valid account?
>
> We're not - it's the sender address that has this problem. Thus the call
> forward for the recipient is OK (I think it's done with null sender,
> yes?), but the actual delivery is rejected. By then it's too late to
> reject with a 5xx at the Exim gateway.

This might help:

verify = recipient/callout=use_sender

Peter


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