@Okech
I think it is clear to everyone that they are not complying with the RFC. However, the point I and a few others are trying to make is that there are a number of good reasons to do what they have done. The main one being the extremely large user base.

In most companies, the sys admins create new mail accounts. They just tell the new users to change their passwords. So the case of /dev/null rarely if ever comes up.


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
@Brian, just tested and it does take into account the dot which is a
plus, and still advances my theory, breaking RFC's on free service
does not add up! Maybe am having this discussion with the wrong crowd
since my aim is to show non-compliance to RFC's and your aim is to get
mail delivered (hacker vs. user?). What most admins do is that when
you break RFC's, your mail to the system if it needs to be helped will
be dev nulled and no questions asked, thats why its good practice to
follow the RFC's. Just like most have pointed earlier, the admin will
be in trouble with his users since all the users care about is mail
being delivered.

./Ok3ch

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Brian Ngure <brian@pixie.co.ke> wrote:
> @Okech
> As I had said earlier, Google apps DOES take into account the dots
> (presumably for this very reason). It is only the GMail accounts that ignore
> the dots.
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> @Dennis - when you do several iterations with email, then you will
>> know why this is not good for the life of email itself.
>>
>> Say for example, am a mail admin for xyz.com & would like to sign up
>> for paid backup services from Google on the same, and internally, I
>> have these addresses which I would like to do some address rewriting
>> to xyz.com which is paid hosted by google, what do I do? -
>>
>> This is just 1 example, and in my every life with email (last 10 years
>> or so) I encounter these scenarios day in day out, and while at one
>> iteration, I stumbled on this. The fact that I can chose another
>> provider is not out of question, but knowing that someone is breaking
>> email is not so nice!
>>
>> ./Ok3ch
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Now this is the point where techies miss the point. See, Gmail is a
>> > popular
>> > email system, and they serve masses who have no idea about the
>> > differences
>> > between jo.edoe@gmail.com , joe.doe@gmail.com and joedoe@gmail.com. The
>> > confusion arising from the use of the three would be far more complex to
>> > handle than the techies angered by the lack of use of the standard.
>> > In a company, it can be honoured, for a global provider , it
>> > is better to
>> > disregard it.
>> >
>> > Also most firms hose to ignore the use of a + in email addresses while
>> > Google honours it .
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