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dumb clients, trailing spaces, and smtpserver



> I was going through the smptserver log today and found that
> there were a fair number of failures caused by trailing
> spaces in e-mail addresses:
>   RCPT TO:<foo@bar.com        >
>   501-                ^
>   501 Path data: Extra garbage before terminating ">"
> 
BTW. The line:
	501-                ^
does odd things with some gateways like: Charon 4.0 :-(
I had to disable it. The gateway is unable to understand multiline
error reports.
Best regards,
	Jerzy Sobczyk

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