What happened to email.com & mail.com's clue? They're munging
envelope sender addresses by deleting everything up to an equal sign.
This is non-RFC behavior! You can see what I mean by telnetting to
port 25 on an email.com MX and issuing the following smtp commands.
I'm presuming that your username is USER and your host is HOST.
helo HOST
rcpt from: <deletethisjunk=USER@HOST>
mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
data
From: me
To: you
.
In spite of your email address NOT being "deletethisjunk=USER@HOST",
you will receive the bounce message!
This affects ezmlm admins because ezmlm requires on the equal sign
being respected. When a similar problem came up at a customer's site,
I change from using the single character '=' to using the
two-character pair '.-'. Domain names cannot begin with a dash, so
there is no possible ambiguity. And many email addresses and domain
names have dots and dashes in them, so there is less lossage
associated with '.-'. Sigh.
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-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | Government schools are so
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
