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Re: Sendmail fixkit
From: bob () unix worldcom com (bob () unix worldcom com)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 09:54:38 -0600 (CST)
Disallowing mailaddresses with '/' in is going to blow away any gatewayd X.400 adresses = ie '/I=A/S=Stupid/O=X400/ADMD=Message/PRMD=ButThen/C=TheyAllAre@gateway' which is the form people here use to get to X.400 addresses. (I know.. X.400 sucks, but we need to be able to get the header thru to a machine which understands X.400 & can deal with the braindamage).
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 I don't pretend to be an expert in this area, but it seems to me that restricting characters that are legal by RFC822 is going to cause problems. Authors of SMTP gateways to other mail systems seem to try to outdo each other in use of strange delimiting characters (ever seen a Banyan address?), and like it or not, much of the world with Internet mail access is behind one of these beasts. -Robert -- Robert Dana <bob () worldcom com> (713) 650-6522 x40 UNIX and IP Network Specialist, Sendmail Guru in training Wolf Communications, Houston, TX Go WorldCom!
Current thread:
- Maybe *THIS* will help. *Hobbit* (Feb 24)
- Sendmail fixkit David Brownlee (Feb 25)
- Re: Sendmail fixkit bob () unix worldcom com (Feb 25)
- Lotus Notes (was Re: Sendmail Fixkit) Matthew J Brown (Feb 26)
- Re: Sendmail fixkit Christian Wettergren (Feb 27)
- Re: Sendmail fixkit (/ in addresses) David Brownlee (Feb 27)
- Gopher attack? (not a sighting just a question) Dr. Frederick B. Cohen (Feb 27)
- Re: Gopher attack? (not a sighting just a question) Mike Shaver (Feb 27)
- Re: Gopher attack? (not a sighting just a question) Albert Lunde (Feb 27)
- Re: Sendmail fixkit bob () unix worldcom com (Feb 25)
- Sendmail fixkit David Brownlee (Feb 25)
- another Web bitchout *Hobbit* (Feb 25)
- Re: another Web bitchout Stephen D. Williams (Feb 25)
- Re: A (possibly) better way to get input integrity Charles Howes (Feb 26)