Re: Legal local-part - ReadList.com

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Legal local-part
\ LuKreme (22 Sep 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (22 Sep 2007)
. . \ LuKreme (23 Sep 2007)
. . . \ (Wietse Venema) (23 Sep 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Legal local-part
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	(Wietse Venema)
Date:	23 Sep 2007

LuKreme:
> On 22-Sep-2007, at 16:51, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > By default, ! and % have special meaning in Postfix: ! must follow
> > a valid domain, and % must precede a valid domain.
> >
> > To disable, specify swap_bangpath=no and allow_percent_hack=no.
>
> Thank you.
>
> >> So, just out of curiosity, which characters are legal for procmail?
> >
> > I would hope that the answer would be in the procmail documentation.
>
> Yeah, I misspoke, I meant legal for POSTFIX.

All except null, CR and LF. Of course many of these characters will
have to be quoted as per the RFC.

Wietse