On 2024-10-30 at 11:11:48 UTC-0400 (Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:11:48 -0400) joe a <joea-li...@j4computers.com> 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. -- Bill Cole
