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[Dan Kohn]

RFC 822 has been obsoleted by RFC 2822.  See my next message for more
details.

http://www.normos.org/en/summaries/ietf/rfc/rfc822.html

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Batie [mailto:alan@batie.org] 
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 10:05
To: Terri Oda
Cc: mailman-developers@python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers]
[MAILER-DAEMON@mira.linknet.com.au:Undeliverable Mail]


On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 12:13:08PM -0400, Terri Oda wrote:
> I've been getting these periodically from one of my list members'
servers
> and I'm curious... is 
> 	To: user@domain.com <user@domain.com> 
> really an invalid address?  MailMAX is the only server I've ever seen
thrown
> an error on this.  

I thought it was legal, but on reviewing RFC 822, I find that it is, in
fact, invalid: if the phrase outside <>'s contains any of spaces, ctrls
or:

specials    =  "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@"     ; Must be in quoted-
               /  "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <">  ;  string, to use
	       /  "." / "[" / "]"              ;  within a word.

...it must be quoted: To: "user@domain.com" <user@domain.com>

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