Re: Comment on lint behavior
joe a <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general |
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On 10/30/2024 12:52:39, Bill Cole wrote: > On 2024-10-30 at 11:11:48 UTC-0400 (Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:11:48 -0400) > joe a<[email protected]> > is rumored to have said: > >> SpamAssassin 3.4.5 (2021-03-20) >> >> Found that lint did not catch a "typo" I made in a "wildcard" email address in the directive "whitelist_auth" >> >> Intended to enter an email address in the form"*@some.mail" but entered"^@some.mail" instead. Lint did not complain. > SpamAssassin's lint function is performing as designed. You entered an entirely valid email address. The lint function in SA has no way to know that you actually meant to enter a wildcard. > >> Perhaps the caret character is valid and has some meaning in that context I'm not aware of, but thought I would mention it. > The caret is an entirely valid character for the local-part of an email address. It has NO special meaning in the context of an email address. See page 12 of RFC5322, where ^ is explicitly included in the definition of legal characters in an email address. Thanks for the information.