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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: SMTP mail to IBM VM system
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.224442.9969@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1745@ernohb.UUCP> <17ttinINNt8l@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:44:42 GMT
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- In article <17ttinINNt8l@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
- >In article <1745@ernohb.UUCP> blaes@ernohb.UUCP (Rainer Blaes) writes:
- >> we want to mail from a SPARC system to our IBM VM computer running TCP/IP.
- > ^^^^^^
- > That seems to be the problem!
- >
- >> >>> MAIL FROM: <blaes@sparc_s>
- >
- >Which is, according to the RFC-822 a legal address. The underscore is not
- >considered as a special character, except for IBM!
-
- Actually, RFC does not define what is a legal address. If gives only a
- syntactic definition. But the hostname portion is supposed to be a
- legal hostname, whicy 'sparc_s' is not.
-
- Firstly, 'sparc_s' is not a fully qualified domain name. Secondly, the
- syntax for host names, as defined in RFC952, requires:
-
- 1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
- to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
- sign (-), and period (.).
-
- I do think the IBM software is being unnecessarily picky. But, strictly
- speaking, it is correct in this case.
-
-