[174764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Sep 29 15:42:50 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:42:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <5428D9DF.80902@tnetconsulting.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grant Taylor" <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
> *sigh*
>
> So this is a non-RFC compliant ""feature.
Nope. The LHS of an email address *is system defined*; no one outside of
the destination mailserver is permitted to make any assumptions about it.
RFC5322 3.4.1:
"""
The local-part portion is a domain-dependent string. In addresses,
it is simply interpreted on the particular host as a name of a
particular mailbox.
"""
Note that using a "real name" as an email address is Not The Best Idea:
http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/support/support_faq/faq_ver_8_issues/#3.5
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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