Re: MH aliases

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1 total messages Started by Owen Rees Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:19

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Author: Owen Rees
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:19

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Shankar Unni <shankar@sgi.com> writes:
> Sendmail will happily generate
>
>    John Q. Public <public@host>,  or worse,
>    John Public (guest) <public@host>.

The second of these is a legal RFC-822 address [the full stop isn't
part of the address], the "(guest)" is a comment and should be treated
as white space. Following the general rule for robustness in RFC-1123:
  "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"
the address should be accepted, but sending it is unwise.

# Owen Rees <rtor@ansa.co.uk>
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