Re: regarding illegally formed address and commands

["D. J. Bernstein" <[e-mail]>]

> Um... actually, according to the RFC821 grammar

According to the RFC 821 grammar, cs.utk.edu is an invalid domain name,
because cs has only two letters.

Really.

> I guess I am looking at this group to tell me what I should be
> doing with a malformed SMTP level address?

Here's what I do: write the simplest possible code that (1) is secure,
(2) is reliable, and (3) can handle any valid input.

Why should I be unhappy if this code also handles some invalid inputs?

One answer is ``because you end up relaying the invalid inputs to
someone else''---but rejecting the input is usually much more damaging.

---Dan
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