Re: sendmail parsing questions

Article View: comp.mail.sendmail

Article #3339

Back to comp.mail.sendmail Previous Next

#3339

From: Mark Sirota
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 21:11

25 lines
1634 bytes

In article <1635@ur-cc.UUCP> I write:
>In article <701@arisia.Xerox.COM> Lovstrand.EuroPARC@Xerox.COM writes:
>>In article <357@anvil.oz> michi@anvil.oz (Michael Henning) writes:
>>> destination "relay_host" and a user part "user@machine1@machine2.dom".
>>
>> That is not a legal RFC822 address, please consider using something
>> like "user%machine1@machine2.dom" instead.
>
> That is not a legal RFC822 address, either.  Please never recommend the
> use of '%' in addresses.  Please consider using something like
>	@machine2.dom:user@machine1

Okay, okay.  You are right, Lennart's address is perfectly legal.  It's
just not kosher, if you will.  It's a bad idea to recommend the use of %'s
in addresses, since it is not reasonable to expect any sort of consistent
behavior out of them.

Someone pointed out that we are just stuck with a bad standard (RFC822,
that is), which doesn't provide any reasonable mechanism for routing.
When will we have a new standard?
-- 
Mark Sirota - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
 Internet: msir@cc.rochester.edu
 Bitnet:   msir_ss@uordbv.bitnet
 UUCP:     ...!rochester!ur-cc!msir

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1671@ur-cc.UUCP>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!msir

References: <357@anvil.oz> <701@arisia.Xerox.COM> <1635@ur-cc.UUCP>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!msir
From: msir@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail parsing questions
Message-ID: <1671@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 21:11:20 GMT
References: <357@anvil.oz> <701@arisia.Xerox.COM> <1635@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: Mark Sirota <msir@cc.rochester.edu>
Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Computing Center
Lines: 25

Reply to Parent Message