Re: Last pending wannabe erratum: Invalid <target-name>

On Sunday 02 December 2007 21:43, Frank Ellermann wrote:

> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> The last pending erratum:  What do real implementations if the
> <target-name> has a form unsuited for DNS queries, e.g. adjacent
> dots ?  Just ignore the <target-name> as "no match" ?
>
> For the test suite:  With "v=spf1 exists:%{l}.%{d}" and mail from
> "ugly..dots"@valid.domain.test what are implementations supposed
> to do ?  A dot (like any other octet) is permitted in a label, of
> course that's no host name, and it might be tricky to construct
> a DNS query, but maybe "ugly\.\.dots.valid.domain.test" works.
>
> It's not as esoteric as you might think, for UTF8SMTP local parts
> can contain "raw" UTF-8 octets.

pyspf will just no-match for adjacent dots.

Scott K

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