Re: Possible bug and suggestion

Francesco, even using SmartDNSHost will this error be returned?

ps: Could I try to send a message to first.last@... ?

Regards

Edinilson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francesco Vertova" <[email protected]>
To: "'XMail Users Mailing List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:44 AM
Subject: [xmail] Possible bug and suggestion


> Hi all,
> 
> I don't think that XMail is still being developed and maintained.
> 
> But, just in case: a user of mine sent an email to 
> <[email protected]?> (note the trailing question mark).
> 
> XMail tried to deliver and failed for the following reason:
> 
> ErrCode  = -109
> SMTP-Error = "Unable to get UDP DNS response"
> 
> Since I don't think the address should have passed the syntax check, I 
> googled a bit and found that the address is RFC5322 compliant 
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.4.1) but contains domain 
> characters that are not allowed by DNS. Section 3.4.1 says that
> 
>       Note: A liberal syntax for the domain portion of addr-spec is
>       given here.  However, the domain portion contains addressing
>       information specified by and used in other protocols (e.g.,
>       [RFC1034], [RFC1035], [RFC1123], [RFC5321]).  It is therefore
>       incumbent upon implementations to conform to the syntax of
>       addresses for the context in which they are used.
> 
> So, I think in general XMail should not accept such addresses (and, more 
> generally, the reference for syntax check should be RFC5321 more than 
> RFC5322).
> 
> Final note: this may be my last message on the list; my server will 
> close in a few days, and that will be the end of my (very good) 
> experience with XMail. I leave the suggestion to anybody willing to keep 
> XMail alive.
> 
> Ciao, Francesco
> 
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