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Re: Legal local-part

2007-09-22 05:57:25
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Alan Clifford wrote:

AC> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, LuKreme wrote:
AC> 
AC> L> 
AC> L> So, for kicks I created a new local user with the username:
AC> L> 
AC> L> #test{!user%}^
AC> L> 
AC> L> and then sent a test email to it.  Postfix complained:
AC> L> 
AC> L> warning: Illegal address syntax from munge[munge] in RCPT command:  
AC> L> #test{!user%}^(_at_)covisp(_dot_)net
AC> L> 
AC> 
AC> I should have thought that postfix should have handled that properly.  
AC> Does it work quoted string  "#test{!user%}^"@covisp.net
AC> 


Sendmail didn't like it either:

Final-Recipient: RFC822; 
alan+#test{!user%}^(_at_)malander(_dot_)clifford(_dot_)ac
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.2
Remote-MTA: DNS; alan+#test{.uucp
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Host unknown
Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:46:46 +0100





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Alan


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