On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, 10:46:47, Chase Seibert wrote: > ... We have a client sending email from Lotus Notes. Sometimes > the TO fields come in with the following format: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Doe/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > They are sending to two addresses, and Lotus notes has prepended the > user's real name in the second case. > > I don't think I've seen this before (with the forward slash), and it's > causing some problems with a custom .exe for auto-responses. The > client claims this is "RFC-821 compliant". Not sure if it is, or even > if that is a current/standard RFC.
Assuming you're asking about 'To:' and not 'RCPT TO:' you should be looking in RFC-822 or RFC-2822. [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Doe/[EMAIL PROTECTED] fits the definition of an 'address-list' with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "John Doe/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as the two 'address' tokens. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a valid 'addr-spec' so it's acceptable as an 'address' John Doe/[EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't fit any of the acceptable forms. They should change Lotus notes to emit the second 'address' as either: a) "John Doe/john"@bar.com b) JohnDoe/[EMAIL PROTECTED] c) John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I suspect the last one is what was intended. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
