Bob Ferguson wrote:
> Sorry for the rather "101" type question, but is the ' a valid character in
> an email address?  I thought not -- only alpha, numbers, "-", "_", and ".".
> But, I'm getting addresses with the ' in them and some program code I have
> is barfing on it.

I assume you are asking about the Local-part of the Mailbox, the part
before the @.  The Domain (the part after the @ can't have anything
except letters, digits, "-", and ".".

If you want the gory details look at RFC 2821
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
section 4.1.2 Command Argument Syntax

In short, ' is valid in the Local-part.

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