On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Michael Brown wrote:
> The | character is not allowed in any e-mail address because it's a Unix
> shell reserved character.
>
> Here's a list right off the top of my head that are usually
> blocked/disabled by just about every MTA out there.
>
> 1. Control Characters
> 2. Space
> 3. !
> 4. "
> 5. #
> 6. $
> 7. %
> 8. &
> 9. (
> 10. )
> 11. *
> 12. ,
> 13. /
> 14. :
> 15. ;
> 16. <
> 17. >
> 18. @ (when used more than once)
> 19. [
> 20. \
> 21. ]
> 22. |
> 23. DEL
There's certainly something wrong here. The open and close bracket
characters ('[' and ']', items 19 and 21) can indeed be part of a valid
email address. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alan Stern
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