From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 09:45:21 CDT
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > See "2.2. Header Fields" in RFC 2822."
>
> > So we either deviate or encapsulate.
>
> No. That section does not support your contention. For example, the
> %-escaped form of Newsgroups is entirely compliant with that section.
The problem is that it doesn't properly address the whole header issue,
the "%" in a "To:" address is parsed by many mailers, such that
joe%nosuch.com@real.com
-is treated as-
@real.com:joe@nosuch.com
and the message is relayed to nosuch.com via the mailer at real.com. Or
more likely "relaying denied" at real.com these days.
If it weren't for that the % would be acceptable if not ideal. It works
in all non-address headers AFAIK, if "works" means isn't rejected or
mangled.
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
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