At 12:06 PM -0400 4/12/02, Stefan Jeglinski imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding:
>Obviously there's something going on with nc.rr.com and dot >usernames. I have an e-mail in to them, but I was wondering if any >gurus here had some insight to any potential problems with '.' in >usernames, as far as MTAs go. Is there any reason to filter and >bounce them, for example? Well, it's an oddity... According to RFC822, a 'local-part' can only have a '.' between 'words' and NOT at the end. A '.' could be the last character of a 'quoted-string' so in theory using "mary." (with the double-quotes) should work but in practice it may not because the handling of quoted-string addresses is pretty poor. The '.' is the only special character that has this odd status: it can be part of an address unquoted but only with a word before and after it. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fount of obscure arcana.... ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
