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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail host canonicalization broken?
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.002726.9334@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 91 00:27:26 GMT
References: <3006@weber.sw.mcc.com> <1991Apr12.235346.28444@mp.cs.niu.edu> <12665@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <12665@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ddean@rain.andrew.cmu.edu (Drew Dean) writes:
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>I'm not a real sendmail hacker (I got 5.61 working on my machine and quit
>at that), but if you can't send mail in this case to user@eiffel.fr. <--
>note the final period !, then sendmail is _really_ broken.  The final period

 RFC1123 specifically warns that addresses with a final period are INVALID.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940