Re: Eliding quotes in envelope? (Re: New spammer exploit ...)

[Sam]

Bruno Wolff III writes:

> On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:04:47PM +0000,
>   Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > If you do not handle the mail for example.com, don't screw around with
> > example.com's local address.  Just pass it along to example.com, and let
> > them deal with it.
> 
> The way that is handled is requoting this that need to be quoted.
> 
> For example if I relay mail to example.com I should be able to take
> an address of ",a"."b"@example.com and convert it locally to the
> real address of ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] and then requote it for the relay as
> ",a.b"@example.com and things should work just fine.

Perhaps, but that is completely unnecessary if you're going to relay it to
another server.

> If you really want an address of "local"@example.com, it should be encoded
> as "\"local\""@example.com.
> 
> If you look at the "Joe\,Smith" example in rfc 821, it speciifcally says
> this represents a 9 character string with a comma being the fourth character.

However, only the recipient's mail server cares about Joe,Smith. 
Intermediate mail servers don't care about it.

-- 
Sam