Re: [Exim] spaces and Eudora

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Author: Leonardo Boselli
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] spaces and Eudora
I put quotes just to show where the addfress began,
actually the address was
%20realusername@???
instead of
realusername@???
I wish to know if this was an accidental fault, or could happen again, in
qwhich case i ask to eudora experts on how to fix it !


On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
>
> > RFC822 state that spaces in address are not significant, so either
> > " realusername@" and "realusername@" should be considered the same.
>
> I would expect spaces within quotes to be significant. Indeed, the
> formal syntax in RFC 822 actually says "including linear-white-space" in
> its definition of qtext, the characters inside quotes.
>
> But anyway, %20realusername is perfectly valid as a local part in
> RFC822, as is "%20realusername".
>
> -- 
> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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