[Mimedefang] Illegal Chars in Email Addresses

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Jan 20 12:18:49 EST 2004


On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Ben Kamen wrote:

> Hey, what's the quicklist of illegal chars for email addresses?

Be careful...  Upon reading RFC 2822, you'll see there are virtually
no illegal characters in email addresses.

The following address, for example, is legal according to the RFC:

	"&@^#*&^#@&^!@@@     !-_-+  + +@^$%"@roaringpenguin.com

Regards,

David.



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