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