Re: zmailer too restrictive

[Tom <tom@sdf.com>]

On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > this should be a valid e-mail address, so why is zmailer complaining ?
> 
> Not ok:
> 	h.-j.schulze@...
> Ok:
> 	h-j.schulze@...
> 
> After a dot the accepted characters are: a-z 0-9

  No, after a dot, the accepted characters are any of the 128 ASCII
characters, but not any special or the space characters.  See RFC 821,
pages 30-31.

> I can alter the parser if you can convince me that it really is ok
> according to mail standards.
> 
> > Greets, Sven
> > -- 
> > PGP public key at http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~goldt/pgp/pubkey
> 
> /Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
> 
> 
> 

Tom