email edit

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007, Fairlight wrote:
>When asked his whereabouts on Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:19:34PM -0500,
>J. P. Radley took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>> 
>> Am I wrong that FQDNs cannot contain '_', '+' or '%' ?
>> If so, rhsc ought not be identical to lhsc.
>
>TTBOMK, you are correct.  Although there's a somewhat depricated address
>scheme of user%host1 at host2 that has to be accomodated -somewhere- if one
>truly wants full 822 compliance.  I haven't seen anyone use that in years,
>though--like over a decade.

While that's technically a legal format, it's been many years
since any competently managed MTA accepted it (or addresses in
the form system!user at example.com) as they are (were) used by
spammers to get around relaying restrictions.

Bill
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