quoted-pairs in comments (\x) copied out

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From: Marco Franzen
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1988 19:17

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I just got a bounced mail from my MAILER-DAEMON. I had specified a
	To: someone@some.where (something containing \")
It was converted to
	To: someone@some.where \" (something containing \")
which was indeed an unknown address :-).

Is this cured in a more recent version of sendmail? I think it is
really a bug. Quoted from RFC822:

     comment     =  "(" *(ctext / quoted-pair / comment) ")"

     ctext       =  <any CHAR excluding "(",     ; => may be folded
                     ")", "\" & CR, & including
                     linear-white-space>

     quoted-pair =  "\" CHAR                     ; may quote any char

My sendmail does this for all quoted-pairs. If there are several
quoted-pairs in one comment, they are collected into one token
immediately before the comment.
-- 
Marco

BITNET:		franzen@dbsinf6.bitnet	(preferred)
UUCP:		franzen@infbs.uucp

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!infbs!franzen@dbsinf6.bitnet
From: franzen@dbsinf6.bitnet (Marco Franzen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: quoted-pairs in comments (\x) copied out
Summary: known bug? already cured?
Message-ID: <1055@infbs.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 19:17:34 GMT
Sender: news@infbs.UUCP
Reply-To: franzen@dbsinf6.bitnet (Marco Franzen)
Organization: Informatik TU Braunschweig, FRG.
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