[Mimedefang] Enumerate Email Address parts

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Feb 3 09:50:01 EST 2010


Joseph Brennan wrote:

> I learned on Usenet in 1989 that the way to get discussion going is
> to post something that other people can correct!  The more quickly
> written the better.

Wow... in 1989, I learned that the way to get discussion [sic] going is
to mention guns, abortion and the Middle East. :)

The Internet email RFCs are horrible.  Really evil.  In the pathological
case, the email address:

    "@@@!$"@example.com

is valid.  The local part, of course, is @@@!$.  However, I'm pretty sure
that email address would get nowhere fast in the real world, so the
simple-minded splitting is fine.

Regards,

David.



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