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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!wupost!usc!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!network.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!mx-list
  2. From: Mighty Firebreather <dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu>
  3. Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
  4. Subject: RE: Problem sending mail with two periods in username
  5. Message-ID: <0095FAB3.3E039580.10737@nscvax.princeton.edu>
  6. Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:32:07 EDT
  7. Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
  8. X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
  9. Lines: 28
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  11.         Earle Ake <ake@dayton.saic.com> writes:
  12. >
  13. >        I had a little problem sending a message to the username
  14. >larry.e..files@f117.n207.z1.fidonet.org.  It seems MX doesn't like the two
  15. >periods in a row in the username part of the address.  This is MX 3.1C, VMS
  16. >5.4-2, using MultiNet 3.1B.
  17. >
  18. >
  19.  
  20. <Omitted.>
  21.  
  22.         I had this problem with an early version of CMU-TEK. This version
  23. took "Richard B. Gilbert" from the owner field of the UAF and converted it
  24. to "Richard.B..Gilbert" causing various peoples mailers to barf.  The
  25. solution, in my case, was to remove the periods from the owner field of the
  26. UAF.  I was told at the time that two consecutive periods in the address
  27. violated the requirements of one of the RFCs; I don't remember which one.
  28.  
  29.         I'd say that MX is probably right and larry.e..files is wrong.
  30.  
  31.  
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  33. *                                                                       *
  34. *                        Here, there be dragons!                        *
  35. *                      dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu                      *
  36. *                                                                       *
  37. *                                                Richard B. Gilbert     *
  38. *************************************************************************
  39.