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Re: [PLUG] OT - email addresses?
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| I am seeing a growing number of email addresses with spaces in them. I
| always though that was not legal?? It makes it difficult because many
| mailers will not allow it or it has to be quoted. The ones I have seen are
| mostly AOL.
RFC 822[1] permits all characters except control characters, space characters,
and the characters ()<>[]@,;:\" in the local part of an email address
(on the left of the @).
so, yes, spaces are not "legal".
RFC 822 does not prevent lusers from misconfiguring their MUAs, though.
--jeff
[1] specifically, sections 3.3 and 6.1
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