Regardless of the RFC, ignoring a trailing dot would be helpful for end users. For example, a user might write "My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]" When the recipient clients on [EMAIL PROTECTED], the dot afterwards may be picked up as part of the mailto link. I realize this is a customer confusion issue that can easily be blamed on the client software, but it can easily be fixed at the server level (which is what sendmail already does).
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [xmail] Re: Local domain and trailing dot On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Francesco Vertova wrote: > > At 12.45 09/11/05, you wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:41 PM: > > > > > I dunno exactly what RFC says about that. I guess the hostname > > > "domain.net." is valid, but i have no idea how this DNS issue should > > > be treated in SMTP. > > > >FYI: Sendmail ignores the trailing dot. Maybe XMail should treat it like > >Sendmail, shouldn't it? > > AFAIK the trailing dot is perfectly legal (or even required, sometimes). > > I think XMail should consider "domain.net" and "domain.net." as > equivalent in handling local domains (without having to add lines in > domains.tab or aliasdomain.tab). Ok, this comes from 2005 but I'm going through stuff to include in 1.23. The trailing dot is not legal, according to section 4.1.2 of: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html Path = "<" [ A-d-l ":" ] Mailbox ">" Mailbox = Local-part "@" Domain Domain = (sub-domain 1*("." sub-domain)) / address-literal sub-domain = Let-dig [Ldh-str] - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
