Re: Eliding quotes in envelope? (Re: New spammer exploit ...)

[Bruno Wolff III]

> > If you look at the "Joe\,Smith" example in rfc 821, it speciifcally says
> > this represents a 9 character string with a comma being the fourth character.
> 
> However, only the recipient's mail server cares about Joe,Smith. 
> Intermediate mail servers don't care about it.

Exactly. That is why any valid encoding of the same semantic information
should be just fine with the destination mail server.

If a server decides to just save the real address while deciding what
should be done with the message and then reencodes it (possibly differently
than originally) that should be just as valid as saving the original
encoding.