Well the answer is YES an "&" is valid and legal in the local part of an email address, but about the same level as naming your children "f*** y**"... it will cause problems later!
BTW Exim needed to be told to allow the & char by editing /etc/exim4/exim4.conf or /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/01_exim4-config_listmacrosdefs -----Original Message----- From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 13 March 2006 10:23 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Straw poll a&[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm having some ongoing discussions with two ISPs, our mail server, and a couple of users over an email address. Is the ampersand a valid character in an email address? It looks like the answer is YES for the local part and NO for the domain name. What do you think?
