Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!styx!ptsfa!vixie!paul From: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: whether to prefix myhost! onto the From: or not.. Message-ID: <612@vixie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 03:17:50 EDT Article-I.D.: vixie.612 Posted: Thu Apr 30 03:17:50 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 06:32:23 EDT References: <16238@amdcad.AMD.COM> <600@vixie.UUCP> <870@xanth.UUCP> <603@vixie.UUCP> <525@hadron.UUCP> Reply-To: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Francisco Lines: 30 In article <525@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes: #In article <603@vixie.UUCP> paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) writes: #>treating a!b@c as a!c!b pretty tenuous (try nonexistent) -- it's c!a!b. # #This time you're wrong, albeit somewhat right. (*sigh*) # #IF you are on a domain machine AND do not have a UUCP connection to 'a' [...] #IF you are not on a domain machine AND have a UUCP connection to 'a', [...] #IF you are on a domain machine AND have a UUCP connection to 'a', [...] I don't see why I should check my local UUCP connections to decide which address operator has higher precedence -- that kind of fluidity will be self-perpetuating. Use concrete parsing rules, and if you can't deliver something, send it back. That will change the network into something that will work more or less homogenously -- instead of the semi-controlled anarchy we have at present. #BTW, going strictly by RFC 822, a!b@c is indeed parsed as mail address #"a!b" on machine 'c'. HOWEVER, that does not mean that there must be #a login or user by that name! That is merely a mail address, which the #machine may then choose to further interpret. [...] This i s rather #explicitly stated. You are correct -- this is what I meant, and what I should have said. Thanks for correcting me, I hope noone was confused by my words. -- Paul A. Vixie {ptsfa, crash, winfree}!vixie!paul 329 Noe Street dual!ptsfa!vixie!paul@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU San Francisco CA 94116 paul@vixie.UUCP (415) 864-7013