On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 22:01 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 15:07 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > you seem to have this love for fixing bugs at the wrong place. > > "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send". I could make this argument against the smtp implementation (or getaddrinfo) far easier than can be made against evolution, but I don't see you "fixing" either of those... > > Unfortunately I lack the capacity to fix the broken reverse DNS on the > free wavelan at YYC airport. Given that I think I should have been > paying for it and it was working for free, I even lack the ability to > complain about it :) > > It seemed reasonable to make Evolution perform a basic sanity check on > its input and thus prevent it from violating RFC2821 just because some > network admin is clueless. > why does getaddrinfo give us invalid hostnames? seems more logical to fix it there if any sanity checking is going to happen. can you imagine implementing hostname validation in every app? as if... -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. fejj ximian com - www.novell.com
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