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Article #4221Re: Precedence in network mail addresses
From: John Diamant
Date: Sat, 16 May 1987 00:08
Date: Sat, 16 May 1987 00:08
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> Also I've seen addresses with "@!" and "!@"
> in them. Any ideas on what to do with these???
>
> kyle jones <kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
> old dominion university, norfolk, va
The first form ("@!") is total trash and I haven't the faintest idea what
you could do with it (I've never seen one either). The second form ("!@")
occurs when mail is sent from RFC-822 world into UUCP and the From: line
had a source route in it and the gateway doesn't know what to do with it.
I regularly see mail coming from hplabs (my ARPANET gateway) of the form:
hplabs!@foo:user@bar
If this is the kind of thing you are talking about, you can ignore everything
up to the first @ and treat it like a standard RFC-822 source route. Of
course, you aren't allowed to do that by RFC-822, since this address
is already illegal and no standard is going to tell you what to do with
an illegal address.
John Diamant
SCO UUCP: {hplabs,hpfcla}!hpfclp!diamant
Hewlett Packard Co. ARPA Internet: diamant%hpfclp@hplabs.HP.COM
Fort Collins, CO
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