Bug#312361: exim4: Exim incorrectly rejects "'" as illegal character in email address

[Simon Wood]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:21:28 +0200
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:

> 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
> 

Hi Marc, 
Thanks for the prompt reply.

I understand the sentiment of the check (preventing spam, etc.) however I think that "'" shouldn't be included as it's a real character that is used in names.

I'm sure my wife's correspondant (Miss O'Brien) would agree :-)

For those wishing to manually fix it, the list of bad characters is in
line 135 - /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs

We ought to consider that Debian is moving more mainstream and thus to 
less astute administrators (such as myself).
Simon.