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- From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison)
- Subject: Re: Mail-11 => SMTP gatewaying per RFC-1405
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.200413.23886@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Reply-To: madison@tgv.com
- Organization: The Foundation for Dinner Peas
- References: <1993Jan21.110451.4275@arizona.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:04:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.110451.4275@arizona.edu>, leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard) writes:
- >Today RFC-1405, "Mapping between X.400(1984/1988) and Mail-11
- >(DECnet mail)" was published. In section A3.2, "Mail-11 mapped in
- >RFC822", this RFC recommends that Mail-11 => SMTP gatewayed
- >addresses be rewritten as
- > "Mail-11-address"@gateway-address
- >
- >So that, in my example above, jones@frobbitz.com would have received
- >the message from
- > "BUGS::LEONARD"@Gate.Arizona.EDU
- >
- >Would anyone care to comment on the desireability, or lack thereof,
- >of changing our rewrite rule to comply with this aspect of RFC-1405?
-
- The biggest reason NOT to do this is because most UNIX systems won't be able to deal with
- that form of address. The quotes often get stripped, leading to syntactically-invalid
- addresses.
-
- -Matt
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