At 12:54 PM -0700 2004-09-19, Mark Sapiro wrote:
It appears that RFC 2822 (Internet Message Format) allows anything in a domain-literal which "is interpreted as the literal Internet address of the particular host", but that RFC 2821 (SMTP) does not allow a domain-literal to be used at all and is more restrictive than RFC 2822 on other forms of domains as well.
RFC 2821 is used for envelope addresses in the SMTP dialog, 2822 is used for header addresses. If MTAs want bizarre characters in the recipient addresses, they need to make sure that they get used only in the headers and not the envelope. Where you run into problems is where an address in one format is inappropriately used in the other.
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