Chad Whitacre: > Wietse, > > > A mis-understanding as in posting a patch that "corrects" > > Postfix behavior without adequate justification. > > > > According to RFC 5312 section 2.3.5, SMTP uses the dot as > > SEPARATOR not TERMINATOR in domain names. > > o I raised a legitimate issue. SMTP's use of "FQDN" is not > widely known. Afaict, it was not even formally defined until > RFC 5321 was published today--during our conversation. > > o I provided a patch. > > o I apologized quickly for calling this behavior a bug. > > o I never used the word "corrects" or otherwise implied that > Postfix has it wrong. > > o I accepted your and Noel's clarifications about the use of > "FQDN" in SMTP. > > o I followed your advice in searching the IETF-SMTP list for > more info. > > o I updated the Wikipedia article on FQDN's accordingly. > > o Here was my misunderstanding: I thought you posted the > message about RFCs 5321 and 5322, and were asking me to > cite these in the Wikipedia article. My fault, sorry. > > o I asked for help in finding the specific reference. > > o I found the reference myself. > > o I updated Wikipedia again. > > > I'm human, I make mistakes, and I hope I apologize for them. But > I'm not an idiot and I'm not malicious. I'm on your side. Don't > you think you could lighten up a little?
I am enlighted, but this does not always come across in my short responses. Wietse