In the business world, end users only care if the recipient received the email they sent. They don't not know or care anything about RFC compliance. I agree RFC compliance is important, but it should not trump the real world concerns of end users.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CLEMENT Francis Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:55 AM To: 'xmail@xmailserver.org' Subject: [xmail] Re: Local domain and trailing dot I agree with Davide RFC not only apply to MTA but to MUA too and to final users too (programs or humans) :) As the MUA interacts with the user, it's to the MUA responsibility to correct the user (automaticaly or not) if users can't be made RFC compliant ( hard to achieve :) ). Francis >-----Message d'origine----- >De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Davide Libenzi >Envoyé : lundi 30 octobre 2006 05:08 >À : xmail@xmailserver.org >Objet : [xmail] Re: Local domain and trailing dot > > > >On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Jason J. Ellingson wrote: > >> >> I would like to humbly disagree. >> >> The trailing "." is valid as a reference to the root domain of the >> internet. It could be interpreted as ("." NULL) > >I on't think it's a matter of persoal opinions here. The RFC2821 >definition of "Domain" does not allow such syntax. > > > >- Davide > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
