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

[Cassandra Fleetwood]

Looking at rfc 2822, it appears a single quote (ASCII value 39) is allowed
in the local part of the address.
Section 3.4.1. "Addr-spec specification" indicates the local-part of the
address is domain dependent.

  "The local-part portion is a domain dependent string.  In addresses,
   it is simply interpreted on the particular host as a name of a
   particular mailbox."
where : addr-spec  =  local-part "@" domain

-Cassandra.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Noyes" <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How to handle single quote in subscriber
emailaddress


> 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.
>
> --
> Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net>
> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/
> http://leaf-project.org/
>
>
>
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