On Mon, 27 Feb 1995, Christian Wettergren wrote: > > | I haven't looked at the fixkit myself yet, but if it disallows '/' in > | addresses, it's going to cause problems with more than X.400. For > | example, the increasingly-popular Lotus SMTP gateway for Lotus Notes puts > | slashes into addresses of users with hierarchical certifiers, eg > | > | Joe_User/Sales/Acme/US.acmeinc@notes.gateway > > Wouldn't if suffice to disallow a slash at the beginning of an > address? > Not for your gatewayed X.400 addresses: "/I=DK/S=Brownlee/O=city/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk" Oh BTW, X.400 addresses can also have spaces & '(' ')' in them, along with god knows what other crap. Ob quote (Source unknown): Two people exchange business cards: If they both had internet addresses they mail each other, if one had an X.400 address & the other an internet address the X.400 one waits for the other to mail first, if they both had X.400 addresses... they phone. David D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk (MIME). Network Analyst {post,host}master abs. (>=-=<) Telephone: (+44) 171 477 8186. (>=-=<) Computing Services, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB. .-------------------------------------------------------------. / Monochrome - biggest UK internet BBS - telnet mono.city.ac.uk \ `---------------------------------------------------------------'