I might be wrong, but I am fairly certain that there are two valid
RFC-822 formats:
"comment string (quotes not always needed but always valid)" <address@???>
address@??? (comment string (quotes not needed) in parentheses)
and that the format:
<address@???> "comment string (with or without parentheses)"
is not valid, and the "comment string" will appear as extraneous
characters at the end of the address..
Even if it was valid, it appears that the users MUA is sending that as:
<<address@??? "(comment string)">
You see how the <> enclose the entire string, anything enclosed by <>
is taken as the functional part of an address.
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David J. Chiodo \ Microwave Systems \ Campbell Network Systems
<djc@???> <davec@???> \ 820 Monroe NW Ste 411
Domain Administrator <dns@???> \ Grand Rapids MI 49503
Customer Support <support@???> \ 616-774-3131 <info@???>
Fax 616-774-3933 Tollfree 1-888-694-INET http://www.cns.net
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:25:14 -0400
> From: "Tabor J. Wells" <twells@???>
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: [EXIM] Curious rejected message
>
> I have a customer who is trying to reply to their own Usenet posting but
> is being rejected with the following:
>
> 1998-04-07 11:05:31 0yMZwJ-0004UN-00 rejected from laslo.ne.mediaone.net
> (smallberries.office.oceanwave.com) [24.128.67.33] <arr@???>: syntax
> error in 'To' header: extraneous characters at end of address:
> <<arr@???> "(A. Rich)"
> >
> Recipients: arr@???
> P Received: from laslo.ne.mediaone.net (smallberries.office.oceanwave.com) [24.128.67.33]
> by siren.shore.net with esmtp (Exim)
> id 0yMZwJ-0004UN-00; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:05:31 -0400
> P Received: (from arr@localhost)
> by smallberries.office.oceanwave.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02144;
> Tue, 7 Apr 1998 11:11:52 -0400 (EDT)
> T To: <arr@???> "(A. Rich)"
> Subject: Re: High Speed Access Reality Check
> References: <6g2h0u$1rs$1@???> <352633ea.707905@???> <6g6qpo$lnb@???> <6g72hd$519$1@???> <6g9inm$asl$1@???> <6gajoi$oso@???> <86g1jrdns5.fsf@???>
> F From: arr@??? (A. Rich)
> Date: 07 Apr 1998 11:11:51 -0400
> In-Reply-To: 's message of 06 Apr 1998 10:31:54 -0400
> I Message-ID: <86af9xekeg.fsf@???>
> Lines: 1
> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2
>
>
>
> We've checked and there are no extraneous characters at the end of the
> address. Is it possible that exim is parsing the To: line wrong? Or am I
> missing something obvious above?
>
> We're running v1.82.
>
> TIA,
>
> Tabor
> Shore.Net
> --
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Tabor J. Wells twells@???
> Shore.Net Systems Admin. Just another victim of the ambient morality
>
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