"Micheal Espinola Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Eric B. wrote: >> Am I misinterpreting RFC822/2822, or should ASSP be modified such that >> any >> address containing quote marks be allowed? Furthermore, if I understand >> the >> specs properly, any character is permissible within quotation marks as >> well. >> So something like "eric)@@?#?$!"@domain.com would be valid, albeit >> extremely >> odd.... > > I would ignore 822 since it has been obsoleted by 2822. But, I agree > that ASSP's interpretation of RFC 2822 is too strict. Quoted strings > should be allowed per the RFC. > > However, I don't believe that any/all special characters are allowed in > the quoted string. Section 3.2.5 states that quoted strings are > "strings of characters that include characters other than those allowed > in atoms". Atoms have a specific character set as defined in section > 3.2.4.
Maybe my interpretation is incorrect, but I had understood "strings of characters that include characters other than those allowed in atoms" to mean any characters that are not normally allowed in atoms. Meaning any other ASCII character. A wikipedia interpretation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address) states: <quote> Additionally, RFC 2821 and RFC 2822 allow the local-part to be a quoted-string, as in "John Doe"@example.com, thus allowing characters in the local-part that would otherwise be prohibited. However, RFC 2821 warns: "a host that expects to receive mail SHOULD avoid defining mailboxes where the Local-part requires (or uses) the Quoted-string form". </quote> Of course, have no idea how much weight a wikipedia reference should be given. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
