On 01/10/2014 11:34 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2014-01-07 6:55 AM, Philip <[email protected]> wrote:
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
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Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 11:12 PM
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Hi,
why can´t I set up an email-address with username/log in "*@xxx.de"? If
I type in this, the buttons are disabled. It only works if I type
something else than the "*".
* is not a valid character in an RFC 2822 address.
The list of valid characters can be found in
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822
Didn't see anything of the kind there...
3.2.4, atext includes *, dot-atom includes atext.
3.4.1, local-part can be a dot-atom, addr-spec is local-part "@" domain
So, *@domain is explicitly allowed. I can't say I *like* it...
Regardless, just because the RFC says something you want to do isn't
illegal doesn't mean you should automatically do it.
But conforming applications should accept everything that's legal.
The fact is, the vast majority of mail servers in the world will
reject many email addresses that are *technically* legal.
The real world often doesn't care what the RFCs say.
(for which I read: arrogant/ignorant developers think they can ignore
the specs)
And people wonder why applications don't interoperate in a sensible way.
Dennis
Protocol Curmudgeon
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