Re: /etc/mailname clarfication

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org (va, manoj)> writes:

>         Seems pretty unambiguous to me, but then, I am biased ;-).
>  My take is that Postfix, sendmail, reportbug, and most other programs
>  are doing the right thing, and Exim4 needs to be fixed.  Received
>  lines never contain an username or @ symbols, which seems to be
>  another indication that policy is not talking about them.

I agree with your assessment about mailname, but you are incorrect
about Received lines.  They can and do have usernames and @ symbols.
It was once required that the ID should have an @, but the RFC was
changed.  FOR clauses certainly have an @.

Thomas