In message <199405172238.PAA14039@weber.ucsd.edu>, "Michael J. Corrigan"
writes:
> >From rfc 1123:
>
> 5.2.16 RFC-822 Local-part: RFC-822 Section 6.2
>
> The basic mailbox address specification has the form: "local-
> part@domain". Here "local-part", sometimes called the "left-
> hand side" of the address, is domain-dependent.
>
> A host that is forwarding the message but is not the
> destination host implied by the right-hand side "domain" MUST
> NOT interpret or modify the "local-part" of the address.
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I think the rfc I wanted was
1327 which explains mapping from X.400->rfc822 space. Wile pure X.400
addresses may be an issue in the future, I hope not in my lifetime
8-). It seems (from my reading of the grammar) that / is always the
leading character in an rfc 822 encoding of the X.400 address.
In message <9405171524.ZM23300@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>, "Laura de Leon" writes:
> On May 17, 5:53pm, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> > >
> > > Not all of them begin with "/".
> >
> > Are you sure, every X.400 address (mapped into internet space) I've
> > seen starts with a "/". I think the / is an introducer (wrong term I
> > know) to the address space. As I remember, the inital '/' was required
> > according to the RFC that defines mapping from X.400 to Internet
> > addresses. Does anybody out ther have the RFC and can check/verify
> > this assumption of mine.
>
> I can't check the RFC right now, but I know quite a few addresses come
> out of HP looking like last_first/node@gateway.dom.hp.com
Sigh. That definately isn't an X.400 name/value paried address, but it
would certainly trigger the hostile address setup unless I limited the
checks for a / to the initial charater of the string.
> I hope that someone checked the RFC before settling on that form of
> address, but I was not involved, and can't say for certain.
As rfc 1123 says above, it has to be a valid address since nearly
anything goes in the local part of an rfc822 address, but I still say
blech. I guess its time to post to comp.mail.sendmail to see if
anybody's sendmail interprets "text/text" as a file name.
-- John
John Rouillard
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-- John
John Rouillard
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