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Re: colons in usernames not accepted by zmailer
On Fri, 4 Aug 1995 starke@unix.worldcom.com wrote:
> I saw this question in the archives, but never saw an answer.
>
> The problem I'm seeing is that zmailer is rejecting mail that has a
> colon in the username. I'm trying to convert to from sendmail, which
> has always accepted this address format.
>
> An example would be: starke:wolf@notes.worldcom.com
You should read RFC 821. The ":" is used as hostname separator in the
return path (MAIL FROM).
Tom