Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 12:43:50 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: ue@nathan.ruhr.de, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr send-pr.sh Message-ID: <20010603194350.80F20380E@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200106031838.f53IcBP34831@aldan.algebra.com>
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Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On 3 Jun, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:08:40AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > >> On 2 Jun, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > [...] > >> > Put the originator's full name in the From and Reply-to fields, > >> > and stick their username (which sendmail will make into an e-mail > >> > address) inside '<>'. Sendmail will still DTRT with this, and it > >> > conveniently puts the submitter's name and e-mail address on one > >> > line, just like it should be after "Submitted by" in a commit > >> > message. > >> > >> But will all mailwrap-able MTAs DTRT? > > > > They better DTRT or they don't belong on the Internet in the first > > place. If you read the various standard documents, starting with RFC > > 821/822, you will find that <> are defined as delimiters of a > > machine-parseable address and that the mailer is to use their content; > > ignoring all other parts of the line in question. > > Well, I was referring to the "conveniently puts the submitter's name and > e-mail address on one line" part. Will other MTAs do that? They must in order to be RFC compliant. If somebody feeds it a local address "From: John Smith <jsmith>" or "From: jsmith (John Smith)" then the MTA *MUST* qualify it with a fully-qualified domain name before it leaves the local machine/domain. ie: it MUST convert it to either "From: John Smith <jsmith@foo.org>" or "From: jsmith@foo.org (John Smith)". Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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