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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:47:30PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Matthew Petach wrote: > > Or should I always ensure that resolvers reach my domain explicitly by > > including the trailing "dot" in all uses, so that my email would be > > given out as "[email protected]" in the hopes that everyone would correctly > > remember to add the "." at the end when entering my email address into > > their mail clients? > > Trailing dots in email addresses are a syntax error. RFC 2822 3.4 punts the components of dot-atom to STD 3/13/14. STD 13 is RFC 1035, which, in 2.3.1, suggests (but does not impose) a standard for domain name literals which appears to expand to a pattern which does not in fact permit a trailing dot. In fact, Mutt (1.2.5) permits the trailing dot, and delivers the mail, and all the intervening MTAs (I only tested local mail on my machine, running Postfix) let the message through -- it came through apparently having been rewritten by Postfix to lose the trailing dot; there was an X-Original-To header. Tony: what authority were you depending on for your assertion, and in which context do you make it? Cheers, -- jr 'comp.mail.headers lives!' -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected]xxxxxxxxxx Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin)
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