> >> Sure, that would have been bad. But if instead the invalid character > >> had been replaced by a ?, everything would have worked fine. > > > >That doesn't remove the possibility, it just makes it very, > >very unlikely. If we're going to change something, we might > >as well do it right. And, we wouldn't have to advise users > >to not use "?" in aliases. > > Um, wait ... I'm confused. How would it have _not_ completely removed > the problem? In Valdis's case, the full header would be (after replacing > the "bad" character with a ?): > > To: Mr Foo ? Bar <[email protected]> > > The email address would still be fully qualified, and aliases would never > be checked. Am I missing something?
The spaces prevent it. But if there weren't any and the brackets were trash: To: [email protected]? I'll agree that no one should have an alias like that, but nmh doesn't prevent it. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
