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From: diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Re: sendmail parsing questions: "%"
Message-ID: <1410011@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 89 18:51:17 GMT
References: <701@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
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> > That is not a legal RFC822 address, please consider using something
> > like "user%machine1@machine2.dom" instead.
> 
> That is not a legal RFC822 address, either.  Please never recommend the
> use of '%' in addresses.  Please consider using something like

Actually, it is perfectly legal RFC822.  "user%machine1" is local-part and is
subject to interpretation by machine2.dom.  It's meaning is not specified in
RFC822 (except that it must be intrepreted by machine2.dom and no one else),
but it is legal and as long as machine2.dom consistently interprets "%" as a
routing character, there is no problem.

> 	@machine2.dom:user@machine1

> Unfortunately, this is not quite legal either, is it?  I seem to recall
> that route-addrs need an accompanying phrase and should be in <>'s, as in:
> 
> 	Mark Sirota <@relay.cs.net:msir@cc.rochester.edu>

Right.  The angle brackets are required for source routes.


John Diamant
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