Re: [EXIM] Underscore in hostname

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Author: Richard Welty
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To: Matthew Frost, Philip Hazel
CC: exim-mailing-list
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Underscore in hostname
At 01:32 PM 9/15/98 +0100, Matthew Frost wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:54:20PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
>> Underscores are not legal in domain names. The following change was made
>> to Exim at version 1.921:
>[snip]
>> Interestingly, you are the first to have trouble with this. Previous
>> complaints about underscore have all been to do with the arguments of
>> HELO commands.


>I've had one complaint about it since upgrading from 1.82 to 2.02.
>I've no idea if they've fixed their DNS yet - but they were quoting an
>email address with an underscore in the domain name. *sigh*


at my previous job, i made our M$ Windows NT weenie fix his exchange
server. it turns out you have to reinstall it completely to change the name.

best part was, once he converted the _ to a - character, he found out that
M$ SQL Server doesn't like - in a host name. he ended up having to
reinstall everything one more time.

$#@!@#$%$@@ Micro$oft

richard

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Richard Welty
NeWorks Networking, Inc.                                  518-244-9675
rwelty@???                             http://www.neworks.net/



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