[Mimedefang] Apostrophes escaped in "To:" address

[Keith Dowell]

Hmm - I always was under the impression that an apostrophe was an invalid
character. (Yet I just tested it on a linux box and if I add the user with
quotes I can put it in... but why).

Heck, if mimedefang is not mangling it, it's sure to get mangled by other
email systems.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Morris" <pmorris at wilshire.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Apostrophes escaped in "To:" address


> Weird -- I see the message get passed through a couple servers before it
> gets to one of my MD+SpamAssassin machines, and up until that point the
> address is intact.  When that machine then relays to the recipient's
> server, the address is mangled.
>
> Could it make a difference that I'm doing per-domain streaming?  The one
> message in particular I've been pointed at was going to recipients both
> at my local domain and another outside destination.  I can't say yet if
> it happens to messages addressed only to one domain, but that's probably
> what I'll try next.
>
> David F. Skoll wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Patrick Morris wrote:
> >
> >
> >>"Sean.O'Leary at domain.com" are being mangled in transit, and getting
> >>handed off to the recipient as "Sean.O%27Leary at domain.com," and
bouncing.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Unless you are using add_recipient or delete_recipient, MIMEDefang does
> >not mess with sender or recipient addresses at all.  They may get
> >encoded in the path between the C glue code and the Perl filter, but
> >nothing should affect how Sendmail delivers the mail.
> >
>
>
>


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