On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 04:49:40PM -0400, Soffen, Matthew wrote:
> It looks to me that many machines running qmail will die on test 6.
> 
> I tried my personal email server, one I do consulting for, the one at
> abuse.net, and muncher.math.uic.edu. It looks like all of them fail at
> Test 6.
> 
> However when I ran the test on vix's mailer, it passed all the tests.
> The only reason it passes is that it checks the sender address BEFORE
> attempting to deliver.  I also ran the test on Sendmail.org's server.
> It passes as well.
> 
> I have a question though, how valid is testing
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to see if the address
> fails/rejected ?
> The mail server would HAVE to process the % hack.  Its NOT necessarily a
> valid test on all servers.  Its only appropriate to test this on servers
> who HAVE the % hack enabled.
> 
> Comments ?

You are completely right. As stated before in this thread, % may very well
be a valid character in the user-part of an email-address.

Greetz, Peter
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