The local part of an Internet style email address is undefined by SMTP.
SMTP is supposed to pass it through unchanged. It is even case
sensitive because nothing is assumed about the local mail system.
Dana Bourgeois
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From: procmail-bounces(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
[mailto:procmail-bounces(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE] On Behalf Of
Gerald V. Livingston II
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:25 AM
To: procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
Subject: Re: dots in local parts
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:41:11 -0500 (CDT) "David W. Tamkin"
<dattier(_at_)panix(_dot_)com> wrote:
I'm not sure in which RFC (or where else) to look this up. To my
understanding, a period is allowed in the middle of the
local part of
an email address but it must be between two characters that are
letters of the alphabet or digits; it may not be the first
character
of the local part, nor
the last one before the at-sign, nor next to another period
or any other
punctuation mark. Is that correct?
Thanks for any help.
Read RFC 822 section 6.2.4 and rfc 1123 section 5.2.16
If you quote it an address like ".John Henry."@domain.com it
should pass through to your system just fine. Then it's up to your
server to treat it the way you want.
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Gerald V. Livingston II
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