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Date:        Mon, 5 Jun 1995 16:23:50 +0200
From: Eric Thomas <ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE>
Subject:     Re: address syntax
To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU
In-Reply-To: Message of Fri,  2 Jun 1995 14:14:27 -0400 (EDT) from John Gardiner
             Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU>

On Fri,  2 Jun 1995 14:14:27 -0400 (EDT) John Gardiner Myers
<jgm+@CMU.EDU> said:

>Could you give a more specific example of one or more SMTP servers
>which handle \-quoting in a dot-string but not a quoted-string?

Oh, I meant in the local part. RFC821 gives you a choice between:

"XYZ::BLAH::XX%\"whatever\""

and

XYZ\:\:BLAH\:\:XX%\"whatever\"

I've found SMTP programs, including IBM's, that don't handle the first
form well because they don't expect the \ inside a quoted string.

  Eric