On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Francesco Vertova wrote: > > At 00.25 30/10/06, you wrote: > > >Ok, this comes from 2005 but I'm going through stuff to include in 1.23. > >The trailing dot is not legal, according to section 4.1.2 of: > > > >http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html > > > >Path = "<" [ A-d-l ":" ] Mailbox ">" > >Mailbox = Local-part "@" Domain > >Domain = (sub-domain 1*("." sub-domain)) / address-literal > >sub-domain = Let-dig [Ldh-str] > > I'm not clear what "legal" means here. If I pass "anydomain.com." > (with the trailing dot) to nslookup, it does resolve. That's why the > mail loop occurs (the MX point to the XMail server, but the XMail > server does not accept it and tries SMTP delivery to itself again and > again). IMHO and/or AFAIK:
Not legal means that the above RFC2821 definition does not match the address. XMail 1.23 will not accept recipients with a trailing dot (or whatever other non-RFC-comppliant character). - 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]
