[comp.mail.sendmail] quoted-pairs in comments

franzen@dbsinf6.bitnet (Marco Franzen) (12/11/88)

I just got a bounced mail from my MAILER-DAEMON. I had specified a
	To: someone@some.where (something containing \")
It was converted to
	To: someone@some.where \" (something containing \")
which was indeed an unknown address :-).

Is this cured in a more recent version of sendmail? I think it is
really a bug. Quoted from RFC822:

     comment     =  "(" *(ctext / quoted-pair / comment) ")"

     ctext       =  <any CHAR excluding "(",     ; => may be folded
                     ")", "\" & CR, & including
                     linear-white-space>

     quoted-pair =  "\" CHAR                     ; may quote any char

My sendmail does this for all quoted-pairs. If there are several
quoted-pairs in one comment, they are collected into one token
immediately before the comment.
-- 
Marco

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