Re: [EAI] New version of E-mail Authentication for Internationalized Mail draft

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 24 January 2018 14:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [EAI] New version of E-mail Authentication for Internationalized Mail draft
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> but apparently I thought that local part macros might not work as
> expected (bad enough

Scott mentioned that on another list.  My first suggestion is to say that 
macros that use local parts don't work with EAI addresses, the second is 
to say that you use the UTF-8 local parts as is and if that creates some 
hard to type DNS names, so be it.  (The DNS is 8 bit clean other than 
ASCII case folding so there's no DNS problems.)

It has always been my impression that SPF local parts are fragile even 
with ASCII names, e.g., what DNS name does this entirely valid ASCII local 
part turn into?

    a.b\.c\\d)e

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John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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