Re: Mail-11 => SMTP gatewaying per RFC-1405

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From: Matt Madison
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:04

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In article <1993Jan21.110451.4275@arizona.edu>, leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard) writes:
>Today RFC-1405, "Mapping between X.400(1984/1988) and Mail-11
>(DECnet mail)" was published.  In section A3.2, "Mail-11 mapped in
>RFC822", this RFC recommends that Mail-11 => SMTP gatewayed
>addresses be rewritten as
>  "Mail-11-address"@gateway-address
>
>So that, in my example above, jones@frobbitz.com would have received
>the message from
>  "BUGS::LEONARD"@Gate.Arizona.EDU
>
>Would anyone care to comment on the desireability, or lack thereof,
>of changing our rewrite rule to comply with this aspect of RFC-1405?

The biggest reason NOT to do this is because most UNIX systems won't be able to deal with
that form of address.  The quotes often get stripped, leading to syntactically-invalid
addresses.

-Matt
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