fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) (07/25/90)
[I know the original discussion is moot by this time, but anyway...] gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes: > The elements of the hostname should be > letter-digit-hyphen, but the local-part (anything left of the @) may be > anything at all, but, if it contains any special characters from the set > <>()[]\.,;:@" or control characters, they must be escaped by a \, or else the > whole local-part must be enclosed in quotes. Periods are legal according to RFC 822. Is this generally true in implementations, or is this considered one of the glitches of RFC 822 that nobody really pays attention to any more? This actually makes a difference to us. A programmer here wrote an e-mail gateway strictly following RFC 822, in the belief that all other mailer implementations in the world followed it strictly as well. This has caused a few problems already... --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz