There was a discussion on the qpsmtpd list recently that touched on
this. It seems spaces are legit, but note that if one is to be
compliant with the RFC then addresses must be rejected if they don't
contain angle brackets. Qmail doesn't enforce this, but there are
patches for it.
Tom Collins wrote:
There's a tracker item on SourceForge[1] about vdelivermail not
accepting email addresses with spaces in the local part (something
like a b [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]). The problem is that
qmail-smtpd accepts them as valid, but vdelivermail does not.
Charles, you are not out of your mind. :-)
Charles Butcher wrote:
There was a discussion on the qpsmtpd list recently that touched on
this. It seems spaces are legit, but note that if one is to be
compliant with the RFC then addresses must be rejected if they don't
contain angle brackets.
Reed L. O'Brien schrieb:
@ @@domain.com is legal.
It would be intersting to know if you receive spam on such a
uncommon address. :)
There's a tracker item on SourceForge[1] about vdelivermail not accepting email addresses with spaces in the local part (something like "a b [EMAIL PROTECTED]"). The problem is that qmail-smtpd accepts them as valid, but vdelivermail does not.Anyone want to weigh in with an opinion before I make
