Hi,
At Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:32:29 +0200,
Werner Koch wrote:
Simon pointed out to me in another context that the user id (section
5.11 of RFC 4880) is not always in RFC 2822 name-addr format, but is
sometimes simply a hostname. I think we should expand the
recommendation in that section to cover this usage.
The name-addr convention has served us well for more than 20 years and I
see no reason to explicitly recommend the use of just a hostname. I see
no problem which will be solved by this. In case the hostname shall be
used similar to a a user id (e.g. for DNS lookup), it is easier to use a
pseudo mail address like hostmaster(_at_)foo(_dot_)example(_dot_)org.
I'm not making a recommendation about what should be done, but
suggesting we update the RFC to reflect current practice.
Neal
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