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From: pv@eng.sun.COM (Peter Vanderbilt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
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Message-ID: <9101102340.AA07427@polya.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 91 01:47:19 GMT
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>          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"
>

[...]

>  /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 [...]

Ouch... you're right.  The problem is with the #L# and #R#.  6.0 will
handle either (a) or (A) but the encoding of parentheses must be #l#
and #r#.

>  Sun's MHS gateway has problems with a majority of the non-alphabetic
>  ASN.1 printable characters, the apostrophe causing us the most
>  grief)  ??

Beyond having to encode non-alphabetics as above I'm not aware of any
problems, even with the apostrophe.  I'd like to hear more about this,
but please respond directly or, better, report it through customer
support.

Pete