[Info-vax] bizarre SMTP problem

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

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<ee94b9b6-a0a4-43c4-8e0e-6c7ad589a2fd at z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
sapienzaf <sapienza at noesys.com> writes: 

> On Apr 9, 4:17 pm, "Bob Eager" <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
> > Then it appears to be a bug, since '+' is perfectly valid as a character
> > in an email address, as per RFC 2822 section 3.4.1.
> >
> 
> Uh, no, sorry that's wrong.  A bit too eager to jump on that without
> understanding the context.
> 
> The response to a "To:" prompt from OpenVMS Mail is subject to the DCL
> parsing rules, 

Not completely, since "@" anywhere but at the beginning is NOT parsed as 
in DCL.