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Re: A couple of comments on the open issues...



On Saturday 15 February 2003 02:12, John C Klensin wrote:
<snip>
> There are no standards at all for interpreting the local part.
> The standard is "no one but the delivery MTA can try to
> interpret the local part in any way".
<snip>

MIXER (rfc 2156) specifies a "sub-syntax" for local-parts. The 
interpretation is done by the X.400<->rfc(2)822 gateways, not the final 
delivery MTA.

MIXER is standards-track.

Marc

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