Controlling 'From' in mail headers? Help!
Bruce R Larson
ires at kaspar.ires.com
Mon Apr 29 14:53:33 AEST 1991
In article <b4gzf5.9mo at wang.com> fitz at wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
>[ mucho deleted ]
>
> path!to!domain.com!peter%uucpmachine
>
>If either of the machines 'path' or 'to' obey RFC 1123, they will try to
>pass it directly to uucpmachine, skipping over domain.com entirely, and
>the mail will fail. Only machines that violate RFC 1123 in this respect
>will forward the mail properly.
>
The meaning of rfc1123 is not crystal clear on this issue.
Here is the offending passage fron Section 5.2.16:
``... It is suggested that "%" have lower precedence than any
other routing operator (e.g., "!") hidden in the local-part;
for example, "a!b%c" would be interpreted as "(a!b)%c".''
On the one hand it suggests that "%" should have lower precedence
than "!", but on the other hand it suggests that "a!b%c" would
be interpreted as "(a!b)%c". The former make much more sense
when "%"s are interpreted only in the local part of an address.
Bruce
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Bruce R. Larson
Integral Resources, Milton MA
Internet: blarson at ires.com
Uucp: ..!{world|uunet}!ires.com!blarson
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