qmail Digest 4 Nov 1999 11:00:01 -0000 Issue 810
Topics (messages 32414 through 32443):
Re: Procmail.
32414 by: Ricardo Cerqueira
32418 by: Sam
Re: Who do I mail to remove myself from this list?
32415 by: Ricardo Cerqueira
Re: QMail aliases with vchkpw (vpopmail)
32416 by: Ricardo Cerqueira
32424 by: Ken Jones
Re: supervise/svscan/and qmail logging
32417 by: Stefan Paletta
Summary: Procmail
32419 by: eric
32420 by: Mikko Hänninen
vchkpw .qmail-default
32421 by: Tyler J. Frederick
32425 by: Ken Jones
Re: indent options for djb's code style
32422 by: Charles Cazabon
vmailmgrd & Courier-IMAP ?
32423 by: Olivier M.
How to setup mail for new user?
32426 by: Conall O'Brien
32427 by: Magnus Bodin
Re: What is /var/qmail/queue/pid for?
32428 by: Dave Sill
32440 by: Andy Bradford
Re: General file location questions.
32429 by: Dave Sill
Re: Mailsubj Priority Question..
32430 by: Dave Sill
32433 by: Mike
Re: how do I accept mail for a given domain?
32431 by: Dave Sill
Re: Flush out the mqueue
32432 by: Dave Sill
No mailbox error...sometimes on large distributions
32434 by: Hammond, James T.S.
Odd problems with MUA deleting server messages
32435 by: Scott Burkhalter
Virtual domain setup
32436 by: Michael Boman
new daemontools timestamp does not work with qmailanalog
32437 by: Dwayne Jacques Fontenot
32438 by: Troy Morrison
vpopmail: support for mysql and large sites
32439 by: Ken Jones
Can't get mail.
32441 by: Lars Brandi Jensen
Rewriting adress
32442 by: Manuel de Ferran
32443 by: Petr Novotny
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On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 04:30:09PM -0600, eric wrote:
> Is there anyway to filter thru procmail and then write to a users
> Maildir ? The "patched" procmail from qmail.org site (and even the RPM)
> doesn't seem to do anything but deliver to /var/spool/mail/$USER.
>
Hmmm... I use a plain and simple procmail, no patches at all.
Try using this in your .procmailrc...
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/new/.
It works for me!
Regards;
Ricardo Cerqueira
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Ricardo Cerqueira wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 04:30:09PM -0600, eric wrote:
> > Is there anyway to filter thru procmail and then write to a users
> > Maildir ? The "patched" procmail from qmail.org site (and even the RPM)
> > doesn't seem to do anything but deliver to /var/spool/mail/$USER.
> >
> Hmmm... I use a plain and simple procmail, no patches at all.
> Try using this in your .procmailrc...
>
> DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/new/.
>
> It works for me!
... Until procmail decides to reuse the same filename, after the first
message is picked up from new, but not removed from the maildir. At which
point, one of the two messages will be lost.
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Sam
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:02:03AM +0200, Miki Shapiro wrote:
>
> Who do I mail to remove myself from this list?
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And then, go take a look at http://www.ezmlm.org :-)
Ricardo
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On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:01:21AM +0100, Antonio Navarro Navarro wrote:
> Hello !
>
> How can I add mail aliases to a domain that has been installed using QMail and
>Vpopmail ? I can add and delete domains and users, but I don't know how to manage
>aliases...
>
Try doing it by hand. Suppose you want to alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cd /path/to/vpopmail/domain.org
echo "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > .qmail-copycat
This should do it.
Regards;
Ricardo
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Create the aliases as .qmail-<user> files in the
~vpopmail/domain/<virtualdomain>
directory. Qmail processes the .qmail files before looking for
.qmail-default,
which invokes vdeliver mail to deliver based on vpasswd users.
Ken Jones
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Antonio Navarro Navarro wrote:
>
> Hello !
>
> How can I add mail aliases to a domain that has been installed using QMail and
>Vpopmail ? I can add and delete domains and users, but I don't know how to manage
>aliases...
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
> Antonio Navarro Navarro
> BemarNet Management
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.bemarnet.es
Robert Wojciechowski Jr. wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> My question is, do I have to start the two supervise processes (one for SVC,
> and one for SVC/log) with svscan, or can I do it manually? I want to be
> able to restart the services, take down supervise for that service, etc
> without having to wait 1 minute for svscan to bring it back up.
svscan takes care of starting the two supervise processes and I don't
know how you would do this manually. Also, you don't normally restart
services by restarting its supervise and you don't have to take down
supervise to take down the service; instead, you use svc -t to restart
a service (supervise kills it and restarts it instantly) or svc -dt to
bring down the service. If e.g. you change the options to multilog,
you restart multilog with "svc -t theservice/log" without affecting
the service itself or losing log information.
The 1 minute delay only occurs when svscan has to restart a supervise,
which should _never_ happen.
> How can I do this without breaking the pipe between the service and the
> logger?
svscan takes care of maintaining the pipe. You just svc at will.
Stefan
For the record and the archives, this is the solution that seems to work
for using procmail with default delivery to ~/Maildir/ *after* processing
recipes.
1. You can use ~/.procmailrc with the last recipe being
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/new/.
:0
$DEFAULT
(note this must come after all recipes have been processed).
This solution works but does not leave those wonderfully unique file
names like Qmail normally would delivery.
2. You can use http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nascheme/maildir.c
as your last procmail recipe as follows
:0
|maildir $HOME/Maildir
This is definitely my preferred solution.
And lastly for the record, the ~/.qmail file should look like
|/path/to/preline /path/to/procmail
eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 03 Nov 1999:
> 1. You can use ~/.procmailrc with the last recipe being
> DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/new/.
I guess this works even with an unpatched procmail, but it's *much*
better to have procmail with the maildir support patch, and then
*NOT* to use that /new/ at the end there. You get all those "nice
wonderfully unique filenames" too.
> :0
> $DEFAULT
>
> (note this must come after all recipes have been processed).
>
> This solution works but does not leave those wonderfully unique file
> names like Qmail normally would delivery.
That's the default behaviour of procmail anyway -- if all recipes have
been processed and the mail is not delivered, it's placed into $DEFAULT.
You don't need to have an excplicit recipe for that. Not that it hurts
if you do, either.
> :0
> |maildir $HOME/Maildir
I guess the advantage of this is that you don't need to patch procmail.
It's also better than using a non-patched procmail to deliver to
"Maildir/new/".
Mikko
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Hi
Over the past couple weeks, the .qmail-default file for one of my virtual
domains has gotten changed on it's own making mail delivery not go
through. (As the reference to the vdeliver program was removed). Here's
what the file SHOULD say
| /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
However, I noticed email wasn't going through, and I checked it and it
said
| /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/alex
Well, there's no bin called 'alex' in the bin dir, but this domain does
have a user called alex. Also, I noticed this happened right after I
added an alias via qmailadmin. Any thoughts? Anyone seen this kind of
thing before?
- T
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"Tyler J. Frederick" wrote:
Looks like a possible bug.
Check your version of qmailadmin. It should not be touching this file
unless you are setting something to be the default delivery user.
Ken
>
> Hi
>
> Over the past couple weeks, the .qmail-default file for one of my virtual
> domains has gotten changed on it's own making mail delivery not go
> through. (As the reference to the vdeliver program was removed). Here's
> what the file SHOULD say
>
> | /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
>
> However, I noticed email wasn't going through, and I checked it and it
> said
>
> | /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/alex
>
> Well, there's no bin called 'alex' in the bin dir, but this domain does
> have a user called alex. Also, I noticed this happened right after I
> added an alias via qmailadmin. Any thoughts? Anyone seen this kind of
> thing before?
>
> - T
>
> ---
> Tyler J. Frederick
> Senior Systems Engineer
> fc.com, Inc.
> What are the options for GNU indent for reformatting code with djb's style?
After a quick peek at djb's code, it looks like the original Berkeley style
with a couple of modifications will get you within spitting distance of his
style.
So, something like
indent --original --tab-size2 --indent-level2 --continuation-indentation2 \
--dont-break-procedure-type --parameter-indentation0 \
--no-space-after-function-call-names filename...
should do it. Not all of the above may be necessary.
Charles
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Just wondering : is anybody using Courier-IMAP together with vmailmgr ?
Would be _really_ interested to know if that works. UW-IMAPd is not
quite ideal to be used with vmailmgr.
Regards,
Olivier
Hi,
Sorry if the answer is dead obvious. Just point me in the direction of
simple instrutions. I've been asked to help out a local charity with
their Linux box. I know something about Linux but not a great deal. I'd
heard of qmail, sendmail etc but before last night I'd never played with
mailers. The bloke who setup up the server is travelling around the
world and can't be contacted most of the time.
The system is running fine. Fetchmail connects to the ISP and downloads
email. Qmail then distributes the mail. I've added some new users and
they'll need mail. There's nothing in /etc/skel so I've got to work add
to their homedirs. Maildirs are in use.
I think the following two commands should setup the Maildir in the new
acounts. The user should log in and execute the following two commands
in their home directories:
/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake $HOME/Maildir
echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail
Alternatively root could do it and then chown.
Is that it? Do I have to mess around in the QMAILHOME/users/assign file?
A section on this issue for total newbies in the HOWTO FAQ would be
great. Unfortunately, it's confusing if you're are going straight to
qmail without any previous mailer experience and don't know the basics.
Thanks a lot,
Conall O'Brien
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:34:11PM +0000, Conall O'Brien wrote:
>
> /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake $HOME/Maildir
> echo ./Maildir/ > ~/.qmail
>
> Alternatively root could do it and then chown.
I'll go for the root way once and then do it in /etc/skel for all future
users.
If you use ./Maildir/ as the default delivery in your QMAILHOME/rc, then you
DON'T have to create .qmail-files in each user directory.
> Is that it? Do I have to mess around in the QMAILHOME/users/assign file?
Yes thats it.
No. You don't have to mess around with /users/assign if you just deliver
mail for a domain placed in "locals".
/magnus
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Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... At any rate, it looks like things have calmed down on the list
>server and I am wondering if I should just delete all those pid files as
>I'm beginning to wonder if they are mistakes made by qmail-queue when it
>couldn't complete it's tasks due to permission problems.
qmail-send will delete them after they're 36 hours old.
-Dave
Thus said Dave Sill on Wed, 03 Nov 1999 13:34:20 EST:
> >... At any rate, it looks like things have calmed down on the list
> >server and I am wondering if I should just delete all those pid files as
> >I'm beginning to wonder if they are mistakes made by qmail-queue when it
> >couldn't complete it's tasks due to permission problems.
>
> qmail-send will delete them after they're 36 hours old.
Dave,
I just looked and sure enough, they were gone. Thanks for all the help.
My next project will be to make an RPM from scratch of this beast... I
know there are already some out there but I would like to have a go at it
myself. It looks like qmail is very machine specific and there are certain
tricks to get it to where it is relocatable.
Andy
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"Denis Voitenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Because most of the files under the qmail tree are host-specific.
>> Obviously, the queue is, but even the binaries are since they have
>> UID's built in.
>
>What does that have to do with the location of files? I run Squid proxy as a
>user squid that is a member of squid group. And it is located in
>/usr/local/squid
The general convention these days is that host-specific files go under
/var.
-Dave
"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I make a message take priority over the ones in the queue.
You can't: all messages are the same priority under qmail.
>Like a
>system report ran from cron, I want it to take priority over the 4 messages
>in the queue with thousands of recipients? I want it to stop what its doing
>email the report, and then go back to the queue? Any ideas?
Well, you could set up a second qmail installation which is Easier
Than You Think (tm), and use one of the installations for messages
with tousands of recipients, and the other for higher priority
messages.
-Dave
Can I make mailsubj use a different mail server?
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Mailsubj Priority Question..
> "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >How can I make a message take priority over the ones in the queue.
>
> You can't: all messages are the same priority under qmail.
>
> >Like a
> >system report ran from cron, I want it to take priority over the 4
messages
> >in the queue with thousands of recipients? I want it to stop what its
doing
> >email the report, and then go back to the queue? Any ideas?
>
> Well, you could set up a second qmail installation which is Easier
> Than You Think (tm), and use one of the installations for messages
> with tousands of recipients, and the other for higher priority
> messages.
>
> -Dave
>
Bill Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Running qmail v1.03, vpopmail, chkpasswd, tcpserver, etc...mail works
>well for the primary domain (smtpd/pop3d)...now what I am trying to is
>is accept mail for a domain foo.com, so if someone sends a mail to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED], it goes to an actual user in the primary domain.
Depends upon whether or not foobar is an actual user in the primary
domain, and if that's the intended recipient. Based on:
>At the moment all I get for the foo.com domain if someone sends a msg
>to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is: No Mailbox here by this name...
I suspect that's not the case. If it's not, you need to add an entry
to control/virtualdomains like:
foo.com:foocom
which will redirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] to foocom-foobar. User foocom (the
virtual domain administrator) can create a .qmail-foobar file to
redirect the messages to the intended recipient.
Or, if [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the only foo.com address you want to
intercept, you can do:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-foobar
And redirect the mail via ~alias/.qmail-foobar-default.
>I know this can
>be done, but it eludes me from reading the docs...(Where is that pesky
>qmail book with lots and lots of examples) :-)
Well, "Life with qmail" is a qmail book with some examples, but I
wouldn't call it "pesky" or say it had "lots and lots" of
examples. Donations of examples are welcome. :-)
See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#multiple-hostnames
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#virtual-domains
-Dave
"Subba Rao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I remove couple of notes in the queue? They have been in the
>queue for over 2 days.
Multiple choice:
A. Don't. qmail will try to send them for a week. If it can't, they'll
be bounced.
B. Shorten queuelifetime if you never want qmail to try that long to
send messages.
C. Stop qmail. Delete all files under /var/qmail/queue belonging to
the messages. Restart qmail.
>Now that Qmail is working fine, I have many other questions with my
>configuration.
>
>1. How do I do address rewrite, for each seperate account? Each user
> on my system has seperate Internet accounts. (Please keep in mind
> that my LAN has a fake domainname).
A. Don't. Help users configure their mail agents to use the
appropriate From/Reply-to/etc addresses.
B. Use ofmipd from the mess822 package.
>2. How is mail received by Qmail from the different sources for each
> user? Is it through fetchmail and such programs?
Probably. Unless the users are able to configure their ISP's to
forward them via SMTP to the qmail box.
Avoid fetchmail if you can: it can throw messages away without
realizing it.
-Dave
I recently installed qmail without any problems. But, if I send a message
to a large number of users (just a big list of users in my pine
addressbook),
sometimes a few will bounce with claims of not having a mailbox by that
name.
However, if I resend to those mailboxes, it works fine. So the problem is
either intermittent or related to delivering a lot of messages at once.
I'm currently using binm2+df (SVR4 binmail) for my rc, but am thinking of
changing to home+df (qmail-local) for the rc. Could this be a problem?
I rarely administer my UNIX system, so any help or enlightenment would be
appreciated. Please respond to my email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is the message I'm getting:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at cs.winthrop.edu.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
...
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
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I have about 25 people using MS Outlook 98 to retrieve their email from my
qmail 1.03 server. Their Outlook clients access qmail through the Internet
Email agent in Outlook.
It requires a typical setup:
- incoming mailserver
- outgoing mailserver
- username, password
- other options
All of my users have Outlook set to delete their messages from the server
when they are retrieved by Outlook.
Starting on 10/30 I had a situation develop where the messages in the
Mailbox files on my qmail server do not get deleted when the email is picked
up. As we have Outlook set to check for incoming mail every 10 minutes on
each desktop, the users receive the same mail over and over and over and
over. FLOODING HAS COMMENCED!
I setup this mail server back in June and have basically ignored it other
than periodically checking into the server. Therefore, I really don't
believe that anything changed on my qmail server that would have caused this
to begin occurring suddenly. I have seen the problem before for one
particular user, but I assumed that he was doing something wrong, and I
fixed it up by deleting and recreating his ~/Mailbox file.
As I mentioned above I use Mailbox files.
/var/spool/mail/<typical user mailbox> is linked to <user home dir>/Mailbox
a typical dir entry for one of these files looks like this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nbur mailuser 22 Apr 21 1999 nbur ->
/opt/mail/nbur/Mailbox
the /opt/mail/nbur/Mailbox file looks like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 nbur mailuser 0 Nov 3 12:23 Mailbox
Do I have the permissions set funny?
Why does it happen sporadically? Once I fix a user it may or may not happen
again - that day or some other day, but it is happening to more users more
frequently since this past weekend (10/30)?
Does it have something to do with Halloween or Day Light Savings Time?
(>humor<)
I use the /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail script from Dave's lwq faq to control
qmail.
Can anyone point me on the right track to fixing this??
Many many thanks!
Scott Burkhalter
VP Eng
Entyre Doc Prep, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using QMail 1.03 with the mySQL patch and I have following question
about relaying:
1) I want that everyone who is sending e-mail thru our SMTP server with the
'FROM:' set to <anything>.foo.bar where <anything> is what it says:
anything.
2) I want enable everyone on the internal network send mail freely, eg use
any 'FROM:' they like (so everyone who is accessing the server from example
192.168.5.x network is allowed to send mail thru out SMTP gateway).
3) Is it possible to make QMail look into the blackhole list over known
spammers? (I know that sendmail let you do this) I'd like to keep the server
as spamfree as possible.
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what's the deal with qmailanalog? I see several questions over the last
few months with not a single response. so I don't have my hopes up.
new daemontools produces hex timestamp
current qmailanalog does not seem to grok it
does nobody use it? why has this not been addressed?
thanks
Dwayne
This was, in fact, answered. Perhaps not authoritatively, but answered
nonetheless:
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1999/09/msg01403.html
...Troy
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Dwayne Jacques Fontenot wrote:
> what's the deal with qmailanalog? I see several questions over the last
> few months with not a single response. so I don't have my hopes up.
A new beta of vpopmail-3.4.10 is on http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail
Changes tested and working on my machine are:
1) support for mysql ./configure --enable-mysql=y
see README.mysql for details on configuration
2) Support for an adaptive directory layout structure.
Supports a theoretical maximum of 23 million Maildirs
in 3 sub directory levels.
3) A conversion utility to convert old vpopmail installations
to mysql. vsqlconvert: automatically populates the mysql
database with every virtual domains vpasswd information.
4) more features and fixes, see the ChangeLog
Next up on the horizon, code for sqwebmail and qmailadmin
to take advantage of the mysql code.
I tested mysql and vpopmail with creation of 65,000 accounts
on a RedHat 6.0 machine with a 3Gig disk and 128M ram also
running X/Gnome. There was no noticiable degradation in mail
delivery or pop authentication times. Next test will be on a
solaris machine with 500,000 accounts.
Ken Jones
Inter7
I have installed qmail, and i can't get my mail from it. Short
description of my network :
1. The server is internal behind a router with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
2. I edited the files in /var/qmail/control/ to www.foo.com/foo.com
respectivly.
3. Running tcpserver
4. Using Maildir and edited qmail.init according to this.
5. The server is not ( yet ) connected to the outside througt the
router. So it is fully internal on my intranet.
6. I connect to qmail let's say from IP 10.yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy. As POP3
server i use xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
7. Starting qmail.
The server behave in this way :
If I send a mail to user1 it is recieved in user1/Maildir/new/.
Let's say i log on as user1, i can't get the mail.
I tried to add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to /var/qmail/control/locals, but without
success.
Can anybody help me out.
Lars Brandi Jensen
Hye qmail users,
I notice a strange thing. When i try to send an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], i get back an error message like this :
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
193.252.19.156 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 RCPT <"thoby."@wanadoo.fr> ERROR. Mailbox doesn't
exist
Giving up on 193.252.19.156.
It appears that qmail rewrite the thoby. to "thoby.". Could someone
confirm this fact ?
We use a basic installation of qmail :
qmail-1.03-102memphis.i386.rpm
with daemonstools, and related packages
Thanx
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Manuel de Ferran | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FRAMFAB|WCUBE | http://www.wcube.fr
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On 4 Nov 99, at 11:36, Manuel de Ferran wrote:
> Hye qmail users,
>
> I notice a strange thing. When i try to send an email to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], i get back an error message like this :
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> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 193.252.19.156 does not like recipient.
> Remote host said: 550 RCPT <"thoby."@wanadoo.fr> ERROR. Mailbox doesn't
> exist Giving up on 193.252.19.156.
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> It appears that qmail rewrite the thoby. to "thoby.". Could someone
> confirm this fact ?
Yes, and it has to. In fact, it's not rewriting the address but
"escaping" or "quoting" (whatever you want to call that). According
to the RFC (I've never read them :-), the parts separated by dots
can't be empty; if they are, you need to somehow quote the
address - saying "this address is non-RFC conformant, but please
try to deliver".
I hope I got it right...
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