[8487] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.3M: mh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon Oct 28 02:45:17 1991
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 02:45:08 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: portnoy
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.3M (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
send mail
What's wrong:
mh doesn't know how to parse continuations properly. Examples:
What should have happened:
In the second case, mail should not have been sent to
mwm_user, since mwm_user should have been interpreted as a piece of
the address.
From RFC822:
This makes the usual form of lists
very easy; a rule such as '(element *("," element))' can be shown
as "1#element".
To aid in the creation and reading of structured fields, the
free insertion of linear-white-space (which permits folding
by inclusion of CRLFs) is allowed between lexical tokens.
and a few syntax specs:
destination = "To" ":" 1#address ; Primary
address = mailbox ; one addressee
mailbox = addr-spec ; simple address
/ phrase route-addr ; name & addr-spec
route-addr = "<" [route] addr-spec ">"
route = 1#("@" domain) ":" ; path-relative
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain ; global address
local-part = word *("." word) ; uninterpreted
; case-preserved
word = atom / quoted-string
domain = sub-domain *("." sub-domain)
sub-domain = domain-ref / domain-literal
domain-ref = atom ; symbolic reference
domain-literal = "[" *(dtext / quoted-pair) "]"
atom = 1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs>
In summary ( :-), the whitespace between "mwm_user" and "<" should
have been interpreted as inter-token space between phrase and
route-addr in the mailbox non-terminal, not as a list delimiter in the
destination non-terminal.
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