Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines) Message-ID: Date: 2 Jul 90 16:49:12 GMT References: <2833.2674c5b3@mccall.com> <14298@ucsd.Edu> <2836.26750678@mccall.com> <14423@ucsd.Edu> <00001FL@cdis-1.compu.com> <2999.2688d45c@mccall.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: > It's reasonable in the sense that it will make things work right, but > unfortunately it violates RFC1123 section 5.2.16, which says that ! should > bind tighter than %. OK. Sounds like RFC1123 is just plain wrong. Who wrote it, and why did they make this choice? > Smail 3.1 avoids this problem by rewriting a%b as b!a in outgoing mail, Which may bounce at sites that reroute @ or % but leave ! alone unless the first part is a domain (such as smail 2.5 in some configurations). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.