From: Bernie Cosell (bernie@fantasyfarm.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 11:25:49 CDT
On 1 Aug 2002, at 8:55, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com> writes:
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> We talked this over on USEFOR and don't think it will be a problem. Those
> sites implementing %-hack only do it for addresses that they consider to
> be local, which means that the only sites that would possibly do this are
> the moderation relay sites.
This is not quite true. Airnews will *not* accept a post, no matter
**WHAT** the domain-part of the email address is, if the local-part
contains either an '!' or '%' and it is not syntatically a correct fake-
uuup or fake-relay email addr. This has burned me a bunch of times [I
try to approve a post and $%@#$%@#$ airnews bounces it because the local
part doesn't pass their syntatic muster, even though the domain-part is
clearly elsewhere, and I've argued with them [fruitlessly] that the
syntax of the local part is none of their business.
/Bernie\
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