Re: Re: Upcoming new test-suite release

Julian Mehnle wrote:
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>
>> OTOH bad..dots.example is a syntactically invalid HELO, does 2.5.7 mean
>> that a:%{h} should throw a PermError ?
>>     
>
> Yes, I think that's the intent.  However, as I said, this is inconsistent 
> with the overall tune of the spec.  I think it should be dropped for 
> consistency's sake.  We can always revive the idea for SPFv3.
>
>   
>> We could say 2.5.7 got it wrong, and it should be "no match", not
>> PermError.  Or we could remove the wannabe-erratum keeping 2.5.7 and its
>> obscure PermError as is.
>>     
>
> I'd strongly prefer the former and would refrain from doing the latter.  
> What do others think?
>   
I agree


>   
>> In both cases I think that interpreting dots within a quoted string
>> (LHS) as "embedded dots" makes sense, it is almost the same as
>> "back\\slash"@example or other odd creatures you might find in a local
>> part for %{l}.
>>     
>
> It might make sense, but the concept would be completely novel to RFC 
> 4408, so I don't think we can do that.
>   
Exactly

Terry Fielder
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