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<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.
Thanks for the information.
