On 2019/01/11 10:07, Michael Peddemors wrote: > For the record, we aren't speaking about 'Friendly Names', but the userpart > of the addr-spec address > > But a pointer to an RFC where it is permitted, that I don't find..
RFC5322 and predecessors. Either dot-atom or quoted-string are permitted for the local part of the address. Characters allowed in dot-atom are listed in 3.2.3; many other characters including whitespace are allowed in quoted-string. > (And yes, Thanks Al it has been used in the wild as you pointed out for some > time now, wanted to know if it was 'permitted' by RFC anywhere now, as > seeing more recent list usage with it.. ) > > It's more a 'gotcha' that post delivery processing systems may not expect... That would be a good clue that they're likely to be doing other things wrong too. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
