On Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 18:12:12, Travis Rabe wrote:
> Is it possible to have an email address
I'm gonna assume you're asking about the local-part (before the @).
> in any other format that regular ascii characters
From RFC 2822 section 2.1. "General Description"
"A message that is conformant with this standard is comprised of
characters with values in the range 1 through 127 and interpreted
as US-ASCII characters [ASCII]."
> and what are the limitations of an email address characters?
Ya can't use CR & LF
> Any help on deciphering RFC 2822 woudl be great, but I dont think it
> says either.
As long as its quoted correctly you can use 125 of the 128 ASCII chars
(excluded are decimal chars 0, 10, 13).
From Section 3.4.1. "Addr-spec specification" and selectively expanding.
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain
local-part = quoted-string
quoted-string = [CFWS]
DQUOTE *([FWS] qcontent) [FWS] DQUOTE
[CFWS]
qcontent = quoted-pair
quoted-pair = ("\" text)
text = %d1-9 / ; Characters excluding CR and LF
%d11 /
%d12 /
%d14-127
Note that what might be conformant with the standard might not be
universally accepted by all MTAs and MUAs.
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