[Raw Msg Headers][Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Parsing of machine::user@relay syntax...
> On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Jens Petersohn wrote:
>
>> We have a couple of machines at our site that are only connected via DECnet.
>> When someone sends mail to our DECnet/SMTP host, and the mail is forwared
>> from there to a SMTP machine, the address appears as follows at the
>> destination:
>>
>> dechost::user@relay
>>
>> where dechost is the DECnet only machine, user the user there, and relay
>> the host that has both DECnet and SMTP on it. This address goes through
>> VMS PMDF and BSD sendmail just fine, but zmailer (2.99.?) chokes on it
>> with the following error:
>>
>> dechost: :user@relay
>> ^-illegal end of address
Really ? I get following:
Illegal-Object: Syntax error in From: address found on mea.utu.fi:
From: dechost: :user@relay
^ ^-illegal special character in phrase
\-extraneous tokens in mailbox
I am looking at getting the rfc822.ssl to accept it.
>> I traced the sequencer, and this message is generated before any parsing by
>> the router() or crossbar() is done, so I cannot fix it in the scripts.
>> Has anyone seen this problem before and (beg/hope) fixed it?
>
> The ":" is used as mail path separator. See RFC 821.
>
> You decnet <-> ip gateway should be doing this:
>
> dechost::user -> user@dechost.relay
Rather:
dechost::user@relay --> "dechost::user"@relay
> instead.
>
> Tom
/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>