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In article <3566@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	What would you do if you saw the following on a To: line?
>Roy Smith <philabs.philips.com.weiser.pa@xerox.com  (Roy Smith)>

I would (and so would my sendmail.cf) send the whole mess to Xerox and let
them deal with it.  This is a strict interpretation of RFC-822.

>Where would you start if you wanted to try to parse this, or would you just
>say it's illegal and throw up your hands?

If I wanted to parse it, I'd take whatever's between the brackets, throw 
out the comments, and work on what's left.  (And what is a sendmail.cf, if
not the embodiment of it's creator's ideas about mail routing and 
addressing? :-)

So, if you feed it through ruleset 3, it'll come back as

philabs.philips.com.weiser.pa<@xerox.com>

so that seems OK so far (of course, it may not be what was intended). 
Then try to resolve xerox.com, since we don't touch the local part, and
send it off to them (hell, for all I know, Grapevine might actually
make that local part into something useful when it gets there). 

Chet Ramey
Network Operations Group, CWRU
chet@cwjcc.CWRU.EDU


Chet Ramey            			chet@cwjcc.CWRU.EDU
Network Management Group		chet@alpha.CES.CWRU.EDU
Andrew R. Jennings Computing Center	chet@pirate.CWRU.EDU
Case Western Reserve University