On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:03:33 EST, "A. Harry Williams" <[log in to unmask]> said: > >> "\"HBLAHA@\""@.ORACLE.COM > 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. You know... I miss a '.' a few more times, I may have to admit I'm getting old enough to need reading glasses... Geez. Thanks, Harry. :) (And no, the leading '.' on the domain is definitely bogus - rfc2821, section 4.1.2 has: Domain = (sub-domain 1*("." sub-domain)) / address-literal sub-domain = Let-dig [Ldh-str] So there's no legal way to get a leading '.'