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

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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]

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

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 12:13:08PM -0400, Terri Oda wrote: 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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