Is yahoo.com's email owned (and operated) by
mail.com or email.com?
I've been having a subscription failure
from yahoo.com
Perhaps they are doing the same silly thing.
However, if you convert to using ".-" that will
completely change the way subscriptions already
work. Everyone who has a set of instructions
will be expecting the "=" sign to work.
Maybe aol.com and mail.com are subtly trying
to create some havoc, so the community of standards
will be replaced by corporate standards.
Alex Miller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: What happened to email.com's clue?
>
>
> 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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