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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Silent mail handler
Message-ID: <1991Apr05.073838.9731@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 5 Apr 91 07:38:38 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.032027.10327@blilly.UUCP> <1991Mar28.150925.703@chance.UUCP> <1991Mar29.105053.20573@blilly.UUCP>
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1991Mar29.105053.20573@blilly.UUCP> bruce@balilly (Bruce Lilly) writes:

>Depending on "attributes", I've seen smail 3.1 turn a perfectly fine
>(envelope address) "foo%bar@fribble.com" (the names have been changed
>to protect the innocent) into garbage like "fribble.com!foo%bar".
>That's (1) not a valid RFC822 address because it does not contain an
>'@', and (2) if one interprets the '%' as a low-priority '@' (in
>accordance with RFC1123), mail gets delivered to the wrong machine.

Actually, it looks right to me.  Especially if it reroutes fribble.com.
Ie: foo%bar@fribble.com -> fribble.com!foo%bar -reroute->
path-to-fribble.com!foo%bar.  Then, at fribble.com, the % is changed
to a "@", and voila - send to user "foo" on "bar".  That's what was
intended right?  I guess it depends on what your connection to fribble.com
is.
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