On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:47:26AM +0000, Sam wrote:
>
> Adam McKenna writes:
>
> > I am investigating a problem on our local lan. The problem seems to stem
> > from netscape sending RCPT TO: lines in the following manner:
> >
> > RCPT TO: <'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'>
> >
> > The qmail server responds:
> >
> > Sorry, I couldn't find any host named flounder.net'. (#5.1.2)
> >
> > I am pretty sure that Netscape is violating RFC 822 by sending single quotes
> > inside the brackets, but I can't find the specific part of the RFC that
> > specifies that only double quotes should be used.
>
> There's no mention of single quotes anywhere in RFC822, therefore they
> should not be treated as anything special, so this is interpreted as an
> address 'adam on host flounder.net', and, since flounder.net' is an
> invalid domain address, the recipient is rejected.
>
> Having said that, I've never seen Messenger act this way. Forget about
> RFCs, something's screwy in Messenger.
I'm thinking it maybe was user error. I don't know though. If the guy asks
again why his mail is being rejected I'll tell him to delete those
addressbook entries and re-create them.
--Adam
