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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:57:12 -0500 said:
>On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:44:46 EST, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> said:
>> At 15:07 01/13/2004 Tuesday, Claude Etienne wrote:
>> >Both the addresses are in the list table as they are listed in the daily
>> >error monitoring report.
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>> Not on the Internet that I know -- for sure, the second address:
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>> "\"HBLAHA@\""@.ORACLE.COM
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>> is NOT RFC822 compliant for a mail hostname.
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>But it *is* quite properly quoted for an RFC822 mailbox (localpart@domain).
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>Ugly, but legal. Outside pair of " quote the string, and inside the string
>the " that are part of the localpart are properly \ escaped.
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>Of course, 822 is *oogly*. foobar@oracle(this is a comment).com is legitimate
>too,
>as are some even uglier. See 822, section 3.1.4. Bring a barf bucket. :)
Except very few MTAs actually do it right. However, is the domain part
valid? I didn't think it could start with a ".", and my quick persual
of 822 leads me to still think that, but I didn't spend a lot of time on it.
/ahw
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