[1119] in bugtraq
Re: Sendmail fixkit (/ in addresses)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Brownlee)
Mon Feb 27 08:08:32 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:09:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
To: Christian Wettergren <cwe@it.kth.se>
Cc: bob@unix.worldcom.com, hobbit@avian.org, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199502270921.KAA01078@tmpwww.electrum.kth.se>
On Mon, 27 Feb 1995, Christian Wettergren wrote:
>
> | I haven't looked at the fixkit myself yet, but if it disallows '/' in
> | addresses, it's going to cause problems with more than X.400. For
> | example, the increasingly-popular Lotus SMTP gateway for Lotus Notes puts
> | slashes into addresses of users with hierarchical certifiers, eg
> |
> | Joe_User/Sales/Acme/US.acmeinc@notes.gateway
>
> Wouldn't if suffice to disallow a slash at the beginning of an
> address?
>
Not for your gatewayed X.400 addresses:
"/I=DK/S=Brownlee/O=city/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk"
Oh BTW, X.400 addresses can also have spaces & '(' ')' in them, along
with god knows what other crap.
Ob quote (Source unknown):
Two people exchange business cards: If they both had internet
addresses they mail each other, if one had an X.400 address & the
other an internet address the X.400 one waits for the other to
mail first, if they both had X.400 addresses... they phone.
David
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