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- From: ced@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Charles Derykus)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: smtp mail to ibm VM
- Message-ID: <3558@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:23:22 GMT
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- Organization: Boeing
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- I'll try to squeeze in again.
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- Per Hedeland writes:
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- :Then again (as I'm sure you know, but perhaps not all readers do),
- : RFC1123 overrides the 24-character rule (as well as the subsequent one
- : in RFC952 that says that the first character must be an alpha):
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- :
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- >>: that '_' : isn't allowed - your list has plenty of evidence for that too
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- RFC1123 also apparently overrides RFC952 on the underscore:
- ^^^^^^^^^^
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- "The domain system allows a label to contain any 8-bit character...
- Because of other protocols restrictions, only the following characters
- are recommended for use in a host name (besides the dot separator):
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- "A-Z", "a-z", "0-9", dash and underscore"
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- So isn't this relevant?
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- I posted this question earlier but was ignored. Sigh.
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