> Then I guess Yahoo is broken too? Parsing out an IPv4-like domain and treating it as if it were a domain-literal address is a nicety that they (and IMail) offer, but in RFC terms they are twisting the meaning of the original address to fit a routable purpose, rather than bouncing it immediately.
This is akin to many mail servers' translation of a double-@ recipient (a@b@c) into a source-routed percent hack (a%b@c), then making the decision to route it in accordance with certain generally accepted, but not RFC-mandated, principles. Both situations require that all source, intermediate, and destination MTAs "look the other way." "Broken" might indeed be too strong a word, then--maybe "trusting" is better, but we all know how far that gets you in the mail world... -Sandy To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
