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Re: Sendmail fixkit


From: bret () real com (Bret McDanel)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:52:56 -0500



| 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? 

Dont think so..  Lets say that ./foo is a valid directory..  Then
foo// would be the same as /    (correct????)



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