On 11/17/25 16:12, Daniel K. wrote:
> Also, RFC 6068, defining the 'mailto' URI scheme, says this:
> 
>       local-part   = dot-atom-text / quoted-string
> 
> referring to RFC 5322 for the definition, which includes '+'.
> 
>    atext           =   ALPHA / DIGIT /    ; Printable US-ASCII
>                        "!" / "#" /        ;  characters not including
>                        "$" / "%" /        ;  specials.  Used for atoms.
>                        "&" / "'" /
>                        "*" / "+" /
>                        "-" / "/" /
>                        "=" / "?" /
>                        "^" / "_" /
>                        "`" / "{" /
>                        "|" / "}" /
>                        "~"
> 
>    dot-atom-text   =   1*atext *("." 1*atext)
> 
> 
> At this point I don't think the validity of an unencoded '+' is
> disputed. The problem seems to be that the consumer of the DMARC record
> does not do any pct-decoding at all, leading to the misdirected reports.

Or, reading over and thinking about it again, maybe the consumer is just
being selective about what to decode, since '%' itself is in 'atext'.


Daniel K.

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