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From: jens@mot.COM
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Date: 10 Jan 91 20:39:47 GMT
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Subject: Encoded DDA Valuse & Mixed Case

        We are running Sun's MHS gateway Version 6.0 and have come across
a problem with encoding DDA values.  Specifically, it has to do with
translating for restricted RFC-822.

        The address I want to encode is "jens@mot.com"

RFC-822     ->  jens@mot.com
X.400 w/DDA ->  /DD.RFC-822=jens(a)mot.com/...
RFC-987     ->  /DD.RFC-822=jens#l#a#r#mot.com/...

        As I understand it, the ORName is supposed to be case insensitive. But,
if the address is in all upper case, the gateway spits it back as unrecognized.

EG:

/DD.RFC-822=JENS#l#a#r#MOT.COM/...      - Works
/DD.RFC-822=JENS#L#A#R#MOT.COM/...      - Fails
                ^^^^^^^

        I think they should both work.  Am I wrong, or, is this yet another
bug in Sun's MHS (Sun's MHS gateway has problems with a majority of the
non-alphabetic ASN.1 printable characters, the apostrophe causing us the most
grief)  ??

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