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From: mparker@chip.UUCP (M. D. Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.headers
Subject: Documentation on Internet/UUCP/??? possible types of mail addresses?
Keywords: arpanet uucp bitnet decnet networks mail address domains
Message-ID: <194@chip.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 04:05:03 GMT
Organization: M/A-COM Government Systems Inc., San Diego, CA
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Greetings...

We are in the process of integrating a number of different mail systems and
are hoping to write the parsers to properly interpret all the possible mail
addresses out there.  I do have a pretty fair idea as to the presendences
and ordering of the operators and what they do, but to this point I have found
no documentation on this.  Many of you might point to RFC822 immediately.
Unfortunately, from what I can determine RFC822 does not address the mixed
UUCP/DECNET/Internet/??? formats that can exist that we all commonly use
now.  

SOOOO...I guess what I am asking is for a pointer to a definitive document
that addresses all sorts of address formats.  This would make it a bit
easier to write a header parser that properly routes messages.  Maybe others
have made a stab at this?

Thanks for any and all help.

Mike Parker
Manager, Systems Administration