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Article #3300Re: Arpa source routes
From: Keith Moore
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 22:05
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 22:05
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In article <8904041442.fofuz.andrew@stl.stc.co.uk> andrew@stl.stc.co.uk (Andrew Macpherson) writes: >You are doubtless aware of the two different forms of From: lines > > From: $?x$x <$g>$|$g$. >and From: $g $?x($x)$. > >infamous for the mistake in the first in Eric Allman's documentation >(he required the '<' '>', while 822 explicitly prohibits them unless >the comment text $x is there.) > >This format is required for all mailboxes. The upcoming host requirements RFC allows the comment text to be absent even if the '<' and '>' are present. As a result, you can always bracket addresses with '<' and '>' to make the commas in source-routed addresses unambiguous. -- Keith Moore UT Computer Science Dept. Internet/CSnet: moore@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu 107 Ayres Hall, UT Campus BITNET: moore@utkvx Knoxville Tennessee 37996-1301 Telephone: +1 615 974 0822
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!utkcs2!cygnusx1!moore From: moore@cygnusx1.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Arpa source routes Message-ID: <818@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> Date: 5 Apr 89 22:05:49 GMT References: <8904041442.fofuz.andrew@stl.stc.co.uk> Sender: news@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu Reply-To: moore@cygnusx1.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) Organization: CS Dept -- University of TN, Knoxville Lines: 23