Subject: '% in addresses (was [B5mods] Usefor ...)

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 05:02:17 CDT


In <Pine.LNX.3.91.1020805112607.6760C-100000@darkstar.prodigy.com> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com> writes:

Note change of Subject. The [B5mods] Usefor ... thread is mostly
crossposts from the moderators@isc.org list (and many of the contributors
are hardly aware it is coming here, yet alone responding to comments
here). This is an issue we need to discuss here.

>Most sites, not only ISPs, are wary of doing anything which might look as if
>they let mail out which the recipient site might then relay. After a
>quick check I can say that AIX, Linux, and Solaris all come with "!" and
>"%" configured as significant characters. Do you *really* want to try to
>convince every site that they should reconfigure sendmail?

Well my sendmail, configured more or less as out of the box, had no
problem sending to Andrew's address. However, I see that some Earthlink
MTA has rejected it, and also a Linone one (using exim apparently).

So what do we do? Look at some oither character?

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