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Re: mangled sender

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Subject: Re: mangled sender
From: Jörgen Persson <jpn-qmail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 20:10:44 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:40:18PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Jörgen Persson writes:
>  > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:42:37AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
>  > > Jörgen Persson writes:
>  > >  > From: "s=Lindblom;g=Caj;ou1=mt;o=lund;p=skane;a=400net;c=se;" <IMCEAX400-c=se+3Ba=400net+3Bp=skane+3Bo=lund+3Bs=Lindblom+3Bg=Caj+3Bou1=mt+3B@skane.se>
>  > > 
>  > > That's an X.400 encoding.
>  > 
>  > Thanks... but, how are you supposed to answer to something like that?
>  > Does MUAs and MTAs in general know how to decode the address?
> 
> MUAs don't care.  It's just a long email address.  MTAs other than the
> gatewaying one don't care either.  Imagine if you had, on your qmail
> machine, a user named imceax400.  How would qmail handle this email?

Silly me.... true, the local part is still valid according to RFC2822. I
guess that's what the X.400-gateway is for -- translating addresses :)

Thanks,
Jörgen

References:
- mangled sender
  - From: Jörgen Persson
- Re: mangled sender
  - From: Russell Nelson
- Re: mangled sender
  - From: Jörgen Persson
- Re: mangled sender
  - From: Russell Nelson

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