briank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the response. I'm still a bit confused, though: If I
> attempt to inject a piece of mail with a valid, RFC822-compliant
> address, and qmail rejects it due to some sort of internal formatting it
> does, does this not defeat the purpose of having an Internet standard to
> begin with?
No, because the purpose of RFC 822 isn't to determine a user interface.
It's to establish a protocol for *computers* to talk to each other. As
soon as you're dealing with user input, you're outside its scope.
That being said, it would somewhat surprise me if qmail-inject with a sane
configuration would reject or mishandle any RFC 822 compliant address.
> BTW, this isn't flamebait (comment for Felix). I'm just trying to figure
> out why qmail is unable to correctly resolve an address in the format
> someone@domain
Do you mean "someone@domain" as the complete address with no dots on the
right-hand side? Bear in mind that RFC 822 contains *no* address
canonicalization provisions; if you're expecting your local domain to be
appended to the RHS, you're outside the scope. Under RFC 822, the above
address indicates that one should deliver the mail to the MX record for
"domain." (and as a general rule, TLDs don't have MX records, although it
is technically legal).
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
