On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 02:06:34PM +0200,
Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have this problem:
>
> His email address on the remote server is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (yes, with an dot before the at).
The above is an illegal encoding of the address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dots are required to have words on both sides in the local part of the
address.
> OK, so far so good and it works. BUT as soon as the message enters
> our qmail system the local part gets quoted, it looks then like this:
> <"vonbueren.rm."@bluewin.ch>.
That is a valid rfc 821 encoding of the address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Now the remote server doesn't like that and tells me "550 Invalid
> recipient".
> Who is wrong now? qmail for quoting the local part (which is legal
> AFAIK) or is it Netscape's Messaging Server for not decoding the
> quoted local part?
Assuming there is a valid user of vonbueren.rm. at bluewin.ch, the Netscape
server is broken. However it may be that the person is advertising the wrong
email address for themselves.
