On Tue, 15 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Could someone fix the address of Robert de Bath? It has a $ sign in it.
Sorry, but that local part _is_ valid.
To quote rfc822 ...
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain ; global address
local-part = word *("." word) ; uninterpreted
; case-preserved
word = atom / quoted-string
atom = 1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs>
specials = "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@" ; Must be in quoted-
/ "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <"> ; string, to use
/ "." / "[" / "]" ; within a word.
CHAR = <any ASCII character> ; ( 0-177, 0.-127.)
You will notice that '$' is _not_ in the characters defined as special
and is in the CHAR characters therefore it _is_ valid. I also checked
rfc976 but that's uucp.
Sorry. You need to raise the bug with the authors of the MTA that
generated your error message.
PS: The spammers seem to think it's illegal too. :-)
PPS: I did consider using !*$%#!!
but that's too evil. :-)
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <rdebath @ poboxes.com>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
> -----FW: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-----
>
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 17:46:25 +0200
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: The Post Office <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Invalid message envelope information
>
> The following message arrived with illegal envelope data, typically a
> mangled address that doesn't obey the RFC822/976 protocol specification.
> If you do not recognize the source of the bad header, perhaps you should
> contact a Postmaster at your site and ask why your mail was rejected.
>
>
> From: Robert de Bath <[email protected]>
>
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