RE: [EXIM] Unfortunate error

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Lähettäjä: Philip Hazel
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Vastaanottaja: Oliver Smith
Kopio: Exim Users List
Aihe: RE: [EXIM] Unfortunate error
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Oliver Smith wrote:

> To: www@??? <www@???>
>
> As I said, I can, technically, see why it's not valid, but I can't see,
> philisophically, why it's mandatorily invalid.


Consider

To: abcd@??? <pqrs@???>

That's confusing isn't it? Remember that

To: abcd@???

*is* valid. I don't know the background to RFC822, but it was written in
the early 80's and I suspect it was trying to pull together a number of
different prior usages. I'm sure if we were starting from scratch today
it would end up very different.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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