Subject: Re: Handling of decnet addresses

From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 23:32:38 -0700

On Thu, 30 May 1996, Jeff Finkelstein wrote:
> Has anyone modified pine to deal with decnet-style addressing, e.g.
> node::user? I would hate to reinvent the wheel ;-)

Pine only supports Internet RFC-822 addressing syntax.

DECnet syntax is particularly problematic, since it collides with RFC-822
group syntax and source route syntax.

I suggest that you use sendmail rules to rewrite DECnet syntax into
Internet syntax, and use Internet syntax exclusively.

-- Mark --

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 23:32:38 -0700

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