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. :)