[lug] e-mail addressing question

[rm at fabula.de]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:20:09PM -0700, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> [...]
> Now the next level of questioning is whether or not allowing such dynamic
> aliasing is part of RFC822 or not?  (I just looked and it wasn't obvious
> to me.)  The other question is whether or not this is desirable behavior
> for a mail system or not?  The last major question is whether or not this
> is a security risk?

Being far away from my RFC CD reference: would RFC822 care at all about
the part in front of the (rightmost) '@' sign? I allways thought that the
interpretation of the string up to the rightmost '@' sign was up to the 
receiving MTA>

> Curious anyway.

Me too ....


  Ralf Mattes
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
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