NODE b4ad5ecfRe: RE: BLACK UNICORN
ghio@cmu.edu (Matthew Ghio)Tue, 28 Jun 94 21:42:41 PDT
| Well, I just sent mail to you, Sandy at crl.com, but it came back to
| you saying that you were "554 Unbalanced '>' ". I guess it's in
| reference to the software :>)
This is a bit of SMTP foolishness. Some applications put
greater-than/less-than brackets around the address, like this:
RCPT TO:<cypherpunks@toad.com> and some don't, ie:
RCPT TO:cypherpunks@toad.com
Some SMTP implementations refuse to accept one or the other format.
It's not a very common problem, but it happens occasionally, especially with
older versions.