Re: zmailer too restrictive

[Alexis Yushin <alexis@NL.net>]

Once Eugene Crosser wrote:
>> The following errors occurred during message delivery processing:
>
> To:<@mailrelay.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:h.-j.schulze@rz.hs-wismar.de>        
>->> 501 5.5.2 Path data: After a dot, something which is not 
>>                     alphanumeric (this is abnormal, investigate!)
>
>Looking at rfc822:
>
>     addr-spec   =  local-part "@" domain        ; global address
>     local-part  =  word *("." word)             ; uninterpreted
>                                                 ; case-preserved
>     word        =  atom / quoted-string
>     atom        =  1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs>
>
>'-' (dash) character is not listed in "specials" and so zmailer is
>probably wrong refusing it.  "-j" is a valid "word".

Looking at rfc821:

            <local-part> ::= <dot-string> | <quoted-string>
            <dot-string> ::= <string> | <string> "." <dot-string>
            <string> ::= <char> | <char> <string>
            <char> ::= <c> | "\" <x>
            <c> ::= any one of the 128 ASCII characters, but not any
                      <special> or <SP> 
            <x> ::= any one of the 128 ASCII characters (no exceptions)

	So this is still wrong to reject.
								alexis
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