[mail-vet-discuss] current syntax

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Fri Nov 2 15:11:19 PST 2007


Juan Altmayer Pizzorno wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:06:39PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
>   
>> i haven't looked the abnf, but i'm guessing that order matters? it looks
>> a little odd to my aesthetics to be using white space as the delimiter.
>> maybe it would be better to not define an explicit order, but and
>> delimit the tag values by, oh say, comma?
>>     
>
> In other words,
>
>     dkim=pass (comment), header.i=xyz.com;
>
> ?
>   

yeah, that's what i was after. or maybe just more generally,

tag=value comment* [, tag=value comment*] ;

and not even enforce positionality of whether dkim=pass comes
first or whatever. that would allow us to add other things in the
future as well. makes the parser simpler as well.

       Mike


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