On 01/10/2009 10:48 AM, Mike Scott wrote: > Harold Fuchs wrote: > >>> I don't believe this has anything to do with OpenOffice. Spaces are not >> allowed in e-mail addresses. If a space appears in the entry in your address >> book that is *only* because you have chosen, either deliberately or by >> allowing your mail program to do its own thing, for the person's name to be >> displayed that way. The actual address can't contain spaces. >> >> >> > I am not sure you are correct there. rfc2822 seems to allow arbitrary > quoted strings for the local part of a mailbox address, and sendmail > seems to accept space when quoted(*) (although I've not been able > offhand to make a space-containing address that actually exists, so the > legitimacy is moot). > > OTOH, spaces are just asking for trouble......
Agree... However, as a heads-up: 2822 was obsoleted by 5322. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt ==== Network Working Group P. Resnick, Ed. Request for Comments: 5322 Qualcomm Incorporated Obsoletes: 2822 October 2008 Updates: 4021 Category: Standards Track ==== <http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rfcsearch.pl?searchwords=rfc2822&opt=All+fields&num=25&format=ftp&orgkeyword=822&filefmt=txt&search_doc=search_all&match_method=prefix&abstract=absoff&keywords=keyoff&sort_method=newer> <quote> 3.4.1. Addr-Spec Specification An addr-spec is a specific Internet identifier that contains a locally interpreted string followed by the at-sign character ("@", ASCII value 64) followed by an Internet domain. The locally interpreted string is either a quoted-string or a dot-atom. If the string can be represented as a dot-atom (that is, it contains no characters other than atext characters or "." surrounded by atext characters), then the dot-atom form SHOULD be used and the quoted- string form SHOULD NOT be used. Comments and folding white space SHOULD NOT be used around the "@" in the addr-spec. </quote> So in this case it "SHOULD" be '[email protected]' rather than '"george helleboot"@pinkfloid.it' as the string can easily be represented as a dot-atom. It's legal (see: Appendix A.5. White Space, Comments, and Other Oddities for examples), but as you point out, just asking for trouble. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
