On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> 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)"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There's the To: header. It is invalid according to my reading of RFC
822, which is what Exim is complaining about.
> 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@???
om>
> 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?
But there are... that "(A.Rich)" is extraneous and is not in the form of
an RFC 822 comment.
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