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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [Patch] Underscores in 'make-archive' e-mail
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conrad |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [Patch] Underscores in 'make-archive' e-mail |
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Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:57:21 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:55:58PM +0100, Robin Farine wrote:
>
> Well, not so right :-). Having read the remarks Jan made about Jean's
> patch, I looked at rfc 2822 and learned that the domain part of an
> e-mail address does not at all have the restrictions that a DNS domain
> has, although in practice an e-mail address such as "address@hidden" would
> probably be refused by most of the existing e-mail systems.
actually, RFC-2822 says:
3.4.1. Addr-spec specification
An addr-spec is a specific Internet identifier that contains a
locally interpreted string followed by the at-sign character ("@",
ASCII value 64) followed by an Internet domain.
[...]
The domain portion identifies the point to which the mail is
delivered. In the dot-atom form, this is interpreted as an Internet
domain name (either a host name or a mail exchanger name) as
described in [STD3, STD13, STD14].
[...]
[STD3] Braden, R., "Host Requirements", STD 3, RFC 1122 and RFC
1123, October 1989.
[STD13] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Name System", STD 13, RFC 1034
and RFC 1035, November 1987.
[STD14] Partridge, C., "Mail Routing and the Domain System", STD
14, RFC 974, January 1986.
So IMO it's pretty clear that the domain part of an e-mail address *does*
have the restrictions that a DNS domain has.
Bye,
Peter
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [Patch] Underscores in 'make-archive' e-mail, David Allouche, 2004/03/24