Bug#346222: exim4-config: should probably allow ' in local parts

[Marc Haber]

tags #346222 confirmed pending
thanks

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:25:30AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > this needs to be usertagged pending-maintainer-discussion
> 
> > We should probably allow ' in local parts by default.
> > miles.o'brian at ds9.example is a valid and not absurd mail address.
> 
> Sure, upstream's default configuration would also accept them.

I don't feel too comfortable with that because it might bomb badly
when such an address is piped to a script or passed to any invocation
using a shell, but since we don't use this in the default
configuration...

Fix committed to svn.

Greetings
Marc

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