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Re: Legal local-part

2007-09-22 02:30:32
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:29:19 -0600 LuKreme <kremels(_at_)kreme(_dot_)com> wrote:

The following characters are defined as legal for the local-part of  
an email address:

      * All alpha numerics (A-Za-z0-9)
      * The characters ! # $ % * / ? | ^ { } ` ~ & ' + - = _
      * The character ., non-repeated, as long as it is not first or  
last

So, for kicks I created a new local user with the username:

#test{!user%}^

and then sent a test email to it.  Postfix complained:

warning: Illegal address syntax from munge[munge] in RCPT command:  
#test{!user%}^(_at_)covisp(_dot_)net

So, just out of curiosity, which characters are legal for procmail?

To repeat the standard mantra:

Procmail is not an MTA

So, I would suppose *any* character is legal for procmail, including
special case and non-printing, if one is able to single it out using a
regex. 

Procmail just doesn't care.

Gerald
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