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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Bracketing in mail addresses - NO NO NO NO NO
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Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 14:09:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 12 14:09:29 1987
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Summary: smail handles ! vs. @ precedences correctly
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>>As far as I can tell from the documentation, smail gives precedence to the !
>>over the @ when it sees both in the address field of an incoming message.

> Since SMAIL is advertised as a RFC-compliant mailer, this can't be right.
> Can a UUCP-Project member comment on this?

I'm not a UUCP-Project member, but I have and use SMAIL 2.3 (the latest
version).

SMAIL does give @ first precedence in accordance with RFC 822.  I am certain
of this.  Not long ago I complained bitterly in this forum that SMAIL did not
handle @ and ! precedences correctly, and was promptly corrected by Mark
Horton.  The problem was that I had an old version of SMAIL, which did have
this bug.

So if you are running SMAIL or installing it for the first time, make sure you
have version 2.3.

kyle jones   <kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu>   old dominion university, norfolk, va