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

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Ted Cooper <eximX1211@???> 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?


Ted,

The ACL snippets are checking the sender address, not the local address -
Exchange rejects some invalid sender addresses that a default Exim
configuration will accept.

Regards,
John