Bug#312361: marked as done (exim4: Exim incorrectly rejects "'" as illegal character in email address)
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From: Simon Wood <simon@mungewell.org>
Subject: exim4: Exim incorrectly rejects "'" as illegal character in email
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Package: exim4
Version: 4.50-8
Severity: normal
When replying to an email with a "'" in the address, Exim4 rejects the
address as containing "restricted characters".
According to RFC2822 the "'" is legal.
Example error:
---
* Connecting to SMTP server: localhost ...
[18:48:53] SMTP< 220 slone.mungewell.org ESMTP Exim 4.50 Mon, 06 Jun
2005 18:48:53 -0600
[18:48:53] SMTP> HELO slone.mungewell.org
[18:48:53] SMTP< 250 slone.mungewell.org Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
[18:48:53] SMTP> MAIL FROM:<simon@mungewell.org>
[18:48:53] SMTP< 250 OK
[18:48:53] SMTP> RCPT TO:<simon'stest@localhost>
[18:48:53] SMTP< 550 restricted characters in address
** error occurred on SMTP session
** Error occurred while sending the message.
---
Strangely enough the offending email had already made it through the
fetchmail/exim system for me to read it in the first place....
Mail client is sylpeed-claws.
Simon.
-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.50 #1 built 27-May-2005 08:08:19
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='mungewell.org:mungewell.tele2.net:mungewell.plus.com:mungewell.org'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost='mungewell.org'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='shawmail.lb.shawcable.net'
#dc_smarthost='relay.plus.net'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
mailname:mungewell.org
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.31
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii exim4-base 4.50-8 support files for all exim MTA (v4
ii exim4-daemon-light 4.50-8 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
-- no debconf information
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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:21:28 +0200
From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
To: Simon Wood <simon@mungewell.org>, 312361-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#312361: exim4: Exim incorrectly rejects "'" as illegal character in email address
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Hi,
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:22:57AM -0600, Simon Wood wrote:
> When replying to an email with a "'" in the address, Exim4 rejects the
> address as containing "restricted characters".
>
> According to RFC2822 the "'" is legal.
That is a feature. See /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/30_exim4-config_check_rcpt.
If you really need these strange characters, you can override the setting.
Greetings
Marc
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