On 7 Jun 2011, at 20:11, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On 08/06/11 02:14, W B Hacker wrote:
>> jh@??? wrote:
>>> Jim Cheetham, 2011-06-07 11:55:
>>>> A user managed to submit an email to a local_part beginning with a colon
>>>> (:info@domain)
>>>>
>>>> Normally this would be rejected early on, but their mail client managed
>>>> to sneak the offending character in by wrapping it in double quotes ...
>>>> (":info"@domain)
>>>
>>> That's not sneaking in, it's just quoting. His MUA probably dit it for
>>> him.
>
> Very well -- then why does Exim reject the first form, but leave it up
> to my configuration to reject the second form?
A local part with a colon that is not quoted in SMTP is a syntax error according to the RFCs so exim will reject it.
If you quote the local part then its a valid local part.
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[ Nigel Metheringham ------------------------------ nigel@??? ]
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