Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:2448 comp.mail.uucp:3591
Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!trwrc!agnew
From: agnew@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM (Robert A. Agnew)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Making smail2.5 understand <user>%<site>@<site>
Keywords: patches, smail2.5, %@
Message-ID: <586@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 17:06:05 GMT
References: <1989Oct5.053531.24832@egsner.cirr.com> <9672@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: agnew@trwrc.UUCP (Robert A. Agnew)
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In article <9672@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>
>All you really want to do is have smail change % to @ if there is no ! or
>@ present (ie, it looks like a local address).
>
Are you sure? According to RFC-822, % has a higher precedence than @. Don't
we have to scan context in order to determine the routing?