On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 16:57 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
> > I noticed a frozen bounce in our mail queue for a message which seems to
> > have come from (envelope sender)
> > '4526433.tHjd3LnMP.@pcrm.unikorea.go.kr'.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the '.@' part of the address is invalid according
> > to RFC2822. So why did exim accept it if it is syntactically invalid?
>
> You can find out in the manual, http://www.exim.org/index.html, how to tell exim to
> refuse non existing addresses and/or syntactically incorrect addresses.
>
Yes, I realise that but my question is why accept an invalid address in
the first place? If I send a message with the address
'fred@@example.com' exim rejects it with a 'domain missing or malformed'
error. That isn't something I have configured, it is exim recognising an
invalid address. So why not do the same with '.@'?
John.
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