Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!chinet!les From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines) Message-ID: <1990Jul2.193607.757@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 2 Jul 90 19:36:07 GMT References: <-:A4XE3@xds13.ferra Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 17 In article lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: >% has no precedence at all. If you change that, I promise you that >mail will be lost. The easiest and most correct way to deal with % is >not to. If you just pass it along when you see it, the right thing >will happen - ESPECIALLY if you are a UUCP site. If you insist on >checking for it, let it be the lsat thing you check before final >delivery (thus giving it lowest preference). There are enough routing >characters in this world, thank you! End of tirade. It is guaranteed to fail if you hand an address with a % separator on the next hop to a standard (i.e. ATT) unix rmail. You can only ignore it if you know that the machine that will encounter it as the local part of the addres will understand it. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us