Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 08 May 2000:
> To belabor what is perhaps obvious by now, RFC822 forbids 8-bit
> characters in the local-part of an address (or anywhere else, for that
> matter). The key lines are as follows:
>
> atom = 1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs>
> CHAR = <any ASCII character> ; ( 0-177, 0.-127.)
>
> I haven't actually seen this particular violation in use; has anybody
> else?
I'm not sure what you refer to with "this particular violation"; since
I've seen subject headers that contained 8-bit characters. I've even
sent them myself in the past (a long time ago), elm allowed one to send
both From and Subject headers with 8bit character content, without
MIME-encoding. Since my name contains an 8bit character I'm well
familiar with the issue. It's kind of annoying, since my options are
either to spell it wrong (Hanninen) or to use the real form which gets
MIME-encoded and then doesn't display properly with every email client.
Well, such is life.
If you mean just the fact that someone puts an 8bit character in the
actual recipient *email address*, no I've not seen that. Like I said
elsewhere, I can conceive it as an easy mistake to make though, if
someone is hand-typing my address. I'm not sure how email clients and
servers would treat such a message, but if it gets as far as my server
I think it would be nice if it gets delivered to me. :-)
Regards,
Mikko
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