Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread Al Iverson
I'm definitely disappointed by the giant chunks of excess HTML links and previews added to your reply, for sure. But the page you linked to clearly says that the asterisk is allowed in the username portion, so nothing to be disappointed about there. Not sure if perhaps you misread it just now.

Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Peddemors
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.. (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'

Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread David Carriger
I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local-part Email address en.wikipedia.org An email address identifies an email box to which email messages are delivered. A wide variety of formats

Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread David Carriger
Michael had asked for feedback to confirm that an asterisk is not an allowed localpart character. It is an allowed localpart character. Hence why I stated he would be disappointed. From: mailop on behalf of Al Iverson Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 10:52:10

[mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Peddemors
owner-nolist-cp_enews-190110p-gqfjbpue*username**domain*-suf...@digital.annexbusinessmedia.com (Where 'username', 'domain','suffix' are placeholders) I don't know of this particular mailer, but can I get some feedback to confirm that the '*' character is not a permitted character in an email

Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread Al Iverson
Return-path headers using VERP in this way, with asterisks in the username part like this, can be traced all the way back to LISTSERV in the 1990s. It's a long standing practice. If you block based on this, you'll block a few spammers or commercial mailers who used or use LISTSERV, or who rolled

Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread Benjamin BILLON
https://www.jochentopf.com/email/chars.html -- Benjamin From: mailop On Behalf Of David Carriger Sent: vendredi 11 janvier 2019 18:49 To: Al Iverson ; Michael Peddemors Cc: mailop Subject: Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats.. I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed.

Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
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

Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Peddemors said: > I don't know of this particular mailer, but can I get some feedback > to confirm that the '*' character is not a permitted character in an > email address? (user name portion) You can always use this handy-dandy regular expression to validate email

Re: [mailop] If you're from Cox - check your SPF records

2019-01-11 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
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Re: [mailop] Mailing List Address Formats..

2019-01-11 Thread John Levine
In article <2019082954.gd47...@symphytum.spacehopper.org> you write: >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