Bug#215319: mailname: MAY contain spaces and other invalid chars, however it SHOULD NOT.

Marc Haber Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, 215319-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 6 Feb 2005 21:58:42 +0100


On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:31:42PM -0800, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> --- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:12:16AM -0500, Mike Mestnik) (The Archmage
> > Forever wrote:
> > > I had a space in my mailname like "black.com block.net", and this made
> > all
> > > my outgoing mail frozen.
> > 
> > What do you suggest the exim4 packages to do?
> > 
> Error: Space in mailname.

I am not sure whether caring for every possible user error in a
debconf script is within the scope of a reasonably complex package.

Greetings
Marc

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