Re: Sendmail fixkit (/ in addresses)

[D.K.Brownlee () city ac uk (David Brownlee)]

On Mon, 27 Feb 1995, Christian Wettergren wrote:
> | I haven't looked at the fixkit myself yet, but if it disallows '/' in
> | addresses, it's going to cause problems with more than X.400.  For
> | example, the increasingly-popular Lotus SMTP gateway for Lotus Notes puts
> | slashes into addresses of users with hierarchical certifiers, eg
> | 
> | Joe_User/Sales/Acme/US.acmeinc@notes.gateway
>
> Wouldn't if suffice to disallow a slash at the beginning of an
> address? 
        Not for your gatewayed X.400 addresses:
        "/I=DK/S=Brownlee/O=city/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk"

        Oh BTW, X.400 addresses can also have spaces & '(' ')' in them, along
        with god knows what other crap.

        Ob quote (Source unknown):

        Two people exchange business cards: If they both had internet 
        addresses they mail each other, if one had an X.400 address & the
        other an internet address the X.400 one waits for the other to
        mail first, if they both had X.400 addresses... they phone.

                        David

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