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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
> * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)  on Thu, 24 May 2001
> | Really?  Why should a login have anything to do with a mail address?
> 
> Because a mailbox is defined as type "addr-spec", which is"
> 
> 3.4.1. Addr-spec specification
> 
>    An addr-spec is a specific Internet identifier that contains a
>    locally interpreted string followed by the at-sign character ("@",
>    ASCII value 64) followed by an Internet domain.  The locally
>    interpreted string is either a quoted-string or a dot-atom.  If the
>    string can be represented as a dot-atom (that is, it contains no
>    characters other than atext characters or "." surrounded by atext
> 
> The defacto standard for the locally interpreted string is one's login
> name, has been that way for more than 30 years.

Sure. But by requiring it to always be true is adding unnecessary
restrictions. The RFC doesn't, so why should Gnus?

> | Why should a FQDN be (the after-@ part of) a mail address?
> 
> Because a domain-literal is exactly that.
> 
> Together, "login @ fqdn" absolutely identifies the sender given a
> reasonably configured system.

For some weird definition of "reasonably configured". 

RFC2822 requires a valid mailbox in the sender field. Can you please
point to the specification that guarantees that "login @ fqdn" is a
valid mailbox? 


Bjørn
-- 
I mean, How can you be so primitive?