Re: Problem with policyfilter

[mea@nic.funet.fi]

> -> we are now using the policyfilter and had some problems. Addresses of the
> -> form <"user@domain.com"@domain.com> were rejected (no such domain). I had
> -> to make a patch to policy.c which adds a new function find_at which finds
> -> the "@" in the address but respects quotes. I've attached the patch.
> 
> Hmmm, maybe this question doesn't belong to zmailer group, but what are such
> messages good for ? and are there any limitations on those addresses ?

	There are cases where the internal local part contains At-characters,
	and is valid as such.  Have you ever seen Banyan Wines ?
		user@host@zone@building@otherclass@...@someorg

	Now translate that to Internet email, and you will get:
		user%host%zone%....%someorg@gateway.host
	or equally valid:
		"user@host@zone@....@someorg"@gateway.host


	As for the original example, the email client configuration
	is broken (badly) in that kind of case.  (Unless it is Banyan,
	of course..)

> -- 
>  Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin of one server at SANET Kosice, Slovakia
>  E-mail: Matus.Uhlar@tuke.sk ; WWW: http://ccsun.tuke.sk/users/uhlar

/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>