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On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 14:02 +0100, Miles Wilton wrote:
> A guy using libsrs_alt with Exim has found this problem:
>
> >It looks to me as if Yahoo are sending out stuff (junk probably!) using
> >the legitimate (if discouraged) quoted-string local-part format and SRS
> >is rewriting this into something which is then illegal (I'm a little
> >rusty on the finer points of RFC-2821).
>
> Has this ever been discussed within the SRS framework? Emails that are SRS forwarded like this
>
> Email from: "SOMECODEDSTRING"@yahoo.com
> SRS return address: SRS0=XXX=XX=yahoo.com="SOMECODEDSTRING"@forward.com
>
> Give an invalid return address. The obvious solution would be to escape the quotes...

That's what my version at http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html does.

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I was after whether SRS specified a way to handle this...

---- Original Message ----
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: srs-discuss@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [srs-discuss] Fwd: [Fwd: SRS problem]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 14:02 +0100, Miles Wilton wrote:
> A guy using libsrs_alt with Exim has found this problem:
>
> >It looks to me as if Yahoo are sending out stuff (junk probably!) using
> >the legitimate (if discouraged) quoted-string local-part format and SRS
> >is rewriting this into something which is then illegal (I'm a little
> >rusty on the finer points of RFC-2821).
>
> Has this ever been discussed within the SRS framework? Emails that are SRS forwarded like this
>
> Email from: "SOMECODEDSTRING"@yahoo.com
> SRS return address: SRS0=XXX=XX=yahoo.com="SOMECODEDSTRING"@forward.com
>
> Give an invalid return address. The obvious solution would be to escape the quotes...

That's what my version at http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html does.

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