Re: Exim not accepting undescore in server name?

["R. W. Rodolico" <rod@dailydata.net>]

Thanks. In several years of doing this, I never realized that.

Rod

> R. W. Rodolico wrote:
>
>>Has anyone had this issue? I have a server named da_vinci.sculptcad.com,
>>and when I try to send an e-mail to root@da_vinci.sculptcad.com, it
>> fails.
>>It appears to break at the underscore and returns fails with the error
>>message:
>>
>>
>
>       RFC 952
>
>    1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
>    to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
>    sign (-), and period (.).  Note that periods are only allowed when
>    they serve to delimit components of "domain style names".
>
>
>       RFC 1123
>
>    The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952.
>    One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on
>    the first character is relaxed to allow either a letter or a digit.
>
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