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.
>>
>> Not on the Internet that I know -- for sure, the second address:
>>
>> "\"HBLAHA@\""@.ORACLE.COM
>>
>> is NOT RFC822 compliant for a mail hostname.
>
>But it *is* quite properly quoted for an RFC822 mailbox (localpart@domain).
>
>Ugly, but legal.  Outside pair of " quote the string, and inside the string
>the " that are part of the localpart are properly \ escaped.
>
>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