Thomas Thurman on Fri, 6 Dec 2002 01:39:11 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] 'inter-user mail'


On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Paul wrote:
> I'm using the Mozilla 1.1 e-mail client.  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 
> i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826  And, yes, it is messing up that 
> line.  It's making the entire line a link.  I'm glad it isn't a real 
> e-mail address!

Interestingly, according to RFC2822 it's valid to have a slash in the
local-part of an email address[1], so Mozilla is doing the right thing
here. FWIW, Pine isn't making a link out of it for me...

T

[1] rearranged from 3.4.1 and 3.2.4:

addr-spec       =       local-part "@" domain
local-part      =       dot-atom / quoted-string / obs-local-part
dot-atom        =       [CFWS] dot-atom-text [CFWS]
dot-atom-text   =       1*atext *("." 1*atext)
atext           =       ALPHA / DIGIT / ; Any character except controls,
                        "!" / "#" /     ;  SP, and specials.
                        "$" / "%" /     ;  Used for atoms
                        "&" / "'" /
                        "*" / "+" /
                        "-" / "/" /
[...]                         ^^^

T

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