>On 17.01.12 21:28, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>Actually the question here is a SMTP return address of the form
>>"@domain", without the local part.
>>
>>Just dug through the code, and it turns out that '@' at the beginning
>>of the email address is accepted in order to accomodate an obscure
>>legacy pre-RFC 822 address format that, in 2012, nobody is going to
>>use anyway, so I'm dropping it.

On 18.01.12 10:31, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>I have found this addressing in RFC 5321 too (4.1.1.11):
>
>    Reverse-path   = Path / "<>"
>
>    Path           = "<" [ A-d-l ":" ] Mailbox ">"
>
>    A-d-l          = At-domain *( "," At-domain )
>                   ; Note that this form, the so-called "source
>                   ; route", MUST BE accepted, SHOULD NOT be
>                   ; generated, and SHOULD be ignored.
>
>    Mailbox        = Local-part "@" ( Domain / address-literal )
>
>
>however the format of <@do.ma.in> is still invalid, since it must be
>followed by :[email protected]

which means, the "@domain[,domain[...]]:" at the begin of addresses 
should be ignored, not disallowed.

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