On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:09:28AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
JRA> I hoped someone would bite. :-)
:)
JRA> 2822 3.4.1 says that the *LHS* cannot have a trailing dot
JRA> without quoting it... but in the next graf, it seems to punt
JRA> the interpretation of "domain" to 1034.
Which circular references back to RFC 822. :)
But anyway I thought we were talking about the localpart.
JRA> You're right, that *is* what the standard says, and I'm
JRA> surprised they left it that way in the rewrite; that is *not*
JRA> the way it should have been done. There are good reasons why
JRA> you might want to terminate a domain name, even in email --
--------------------------------------------------^
Did you leave out "with a dot" ?
JRA> though mostly diagnostic ones, admittedly.
Hmm, not a use case I've ever encountered. "localhost.localdomain" is
about as wacky as it gets.
-Barry
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