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Re: [fetchmail]possible bug in fetchmails address parse

2001-09-10 05:16:01
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:01:15AM -0400, Eric S Raymond 
<esr(_at_)thyrsus(_dot_)com> wrote:
Congratulations.  You have the most perverse mail address I have ever seen
in twenty-five years of internetting.

It improves a lot of software ;)

The RFC822 address parser used in multidrop mode chokes on some
@-addresses that are technically legal but bizarre.  Strange uses of
quoting and embedded comments are likely to confuse it.

(well, "a" rfc822 address parser is relatively simple, but I don't know
your needs).

Sorry, I'm not going to try to fix this.

I don't suffer from it at all. It's other fetchmail users that have
problems. So that's fine with me ;)

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