[Mailman-Users] How to handle single quote in subscriber email address

[Mike Noyes]

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 14:44, William Waggoner wrote:
> I hate to disagree but ...
> 
> RFC-0822 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html) allows the local-part to
> contain single quotes.

William,
The current rfc is 2822. After reading it, does your assertion that
Mailman is broken still stand?

RFC 2822
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html

> It also specifically allows, as a specified syntax, quoted strings as the
> local part.
> 
> The characters that are not allowed outside of quoted strings are:
> 
> specials    =  "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@"  ; Must be in quoted-
>                  /  "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <">  ;  string, to use
>                  /  "." / "[" / "]"              ;  within a word.
> 
> SPACE, and CTL characters.
> 
> Note that the period is used as a word separator, it IS allowed but is
> considered a separator, not part of the word.
> 
> It is Mailman that is broken.

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