Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!oliveb!veritas!tron From: tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: mail to X.400 domain /PRMD=CNES/ADMD=ATLAS/C=FR/ -- how? Message-ID: <1991Apr29.013708.26439@Veritas.COM> Date: 29 Apr 91 01:37:08 GMT References: <7FFQ3IC@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> Organization: VERITAS Software Lines: 23 In article <7FFQ3IC@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> admin@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de writes: >smd@lsuc.on.ca (Sean Doran) writes: >>In an article (Message-Id: <1991Apr27.083359.30117@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>), >> >>/C=FR/ADMD=ATLAS/PRMD=CNES/O=CNES/OU=ARGOS2/S=gaspar/@nac.no >> >>Which will work, if the X.400 address is valid. > >I have problems with this because this might be a valid X.400 address but >this is NOT a valid RFC822 address. You are not allowed to use the >character "/" in a RFC822 address (I know there are differences in >the various RFCs but the newest say that "/" is forbidden). >Our MTA (smail 3.1.20) says that this address has an invalid character >and refuses such an address. The most MTAs of the European backbones >refuses such an address too. To clarify things, smail will deliver the specified address to nac.no, though it does not have the X.400 support necessary to do anything with this address on the machine nac.no. Note that smail does NOT accept "/" as part of a hostname, which is in accordance with RFC standards. -- tron |-<=>-| ARPAnet: veritas!tron@apple.com tron@veritas.com UUCPnet: {amdahl,apple,pyramid}!veritas!tron