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From: johnsson@decwrl.UUCP (Richard Johnsson)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: A pox on colons in mail addresses
Message-ID: <1698@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 00:19:20 EST
Article-I.D.: decwrl.1698
Posted: Wed Apr 17 00:19:20 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Apr-85 05:51:48 EST
References: <684@plus5.UUCP>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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Dotted addresses reportedly cause problems in some uucp implementations.
At decwrl, we try to provide mail gateway functions in the sender's native
syntax. Thus we accept:

	user@site.dec				from local senders

	user%site.dec@decwrl.arpa		from the Internet

	<@decwrl.arpa:user@site.dec>		also from Internet

	...!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-site!user	from UUCP

We also take site::user from local senders just to make life interesting.

Some combinations/modifications of these addresses also work, but nothing is
guaranteed.
-- 
	Richard Johnsson, DEC Western Software Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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