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Article #4247Re: Bracketing in mail addresses - NO NO NO NO NO
From: lyndon
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1987 16:19
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1987 16:19
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You should be able to specify a route like site1!site2!host.domain!user as an alternate to site1!site2!user@host.domain Sites that gateway between @ and ! networks should be able to grok host.domain!user for this very reason (according to the RFC you love to hate :-) If you look at the paths generated by smail, they will use the host.domain!next_part convention in preference to user@... to enable these type of addresses to be routed through hosts that understand @ as well as ! without any confusion arising.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!alberta!ncc!lyndon From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Bracketing in mail addresses - NO NO NO NO NO Message-ID: <1441@ncc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 12:19:41 EDT Article-I.D.: ncc.1441 Posted: Tue Jun 16 12:19:41 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jun-87 01:42:55 EDT References: <16238@amdcad.AMD.COM> <3546@cbosgd.ATT.COM> <749@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <4106@teddy.UUCP> Organization: Nexus Computing Corp., Edmonton, AB Lines: 15 Summary: user@foo.COM == foo.com!user