Hi folks,
Quick question on RFC2822. Sect. 3.4.1 on address formats states:
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.
To me, this means that the local-part of an address may either be
quoted or may contain dot-atoms, but may not contain embedded quoted
substrings. For example, consider the following address local-parts:
VALID: vince.sabio
VALID: "vince sabio" (deprecated, but nonetheless valid)
NOT VALID: vince."human mail server".sabio
Is my interpretation of 3.4.1 correct, or am I reading something wrong here?
BTW, congrats all around on RFCs 2821/2!
Thanks,
Vince