The proper standard is RFC 2822.

If you're planning to read through it and figure out exactly what is and
isn't valid you'd probably best go get yourself some supplies.

Tinned food, a sleeping bag, toothbrush and a shaving kit.

Needless to say it's not trivial.

Spike

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark A Kruger
>Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:16 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: cfmail Part 2
>
>John,
>
>While you are on the topic of email formatting, I have seen addresses
>formatted the following ways inside the cfmail tag:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (my name)
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <my name>
>my name  < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
>
>I think I even saw
>
>My name [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>These formats have varying degrees of success. I recently
>"fixed" a website
>where all the addresses where:
>
>my name < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>...This would work sometimes and sometimes it would not. It
>turns out that
>the emails were being relayed through a load-balancer to more
>than one smtp
>relay server. Some of them could handle the format and some of them
>couldn't.  The question is, was the email format screwy or
>where there just
>some misconfigured email relay servers?
>
>What is the proper standard for including the descriptive
>portion of the
>email address?
>
>Mark A. Kruger, CFG, MSCE
>www.cfwebtools.com
>www.necfug.com
>http://blog.mxconsulting.com
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:51 PM
>  To: CF-Talk
>  Subject: RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?
>
>
>  Invalid in format. As long as it's a properly formed email
>address, it
>  will work.  You just have to make sure your data is clean.
>
>  John
>
>
>
>
>
>
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