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Article #4252Re: Bracketing in mail addresses - NO NO NO NO NO
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1987 18:09
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1987 18:09
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>>As far as I can tell from the documentation, smail gives precedence to the ! >>over the @ when it sees both in the address field of an incoming message. > Since SMAIL is advertised as a RFC-compliant mailer, this can't be right. > Can a UUCP-Project member comment on this? I'm not a UUCP-Project member, but I have and use SMAIL 2.3 (the latest version). SMAIL does give @ first precedence in accordance with RFC 822. I am certain of this. Not long ago I complained bitterly in this forum that SMAIL did not handle @ and ! precedences correctly, and was promptly corrected by Mark Horton. The problem was that I had an old version of SMAIL, which did have this bug. So if you are running SMAIL or installing it for the first time, make sure you have version 2.3. kyle jones <kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu> old dominion university, norfolk, va
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!rutgers!ames!xanth!kyle From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Bracketing in mail addresses - NO NO NO NO NO Message-ID: <1216@xanth.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 14:09:29 EDT Article-I.D.: xanth.1216 Posted: Fri Jun 12 14:09:29 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 01:17:56 EDT References: <16238@amdcad.AMD.COM> <3546@cbosgd.ATT.COM> <749@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <654@vixie.UUCP> Lines: 19 Summary: smail handles ! vs. @ precedences correctly