[Gllug] Square brackets [OT]

[Martyn Drake]

Ashley Evans wrote:

> I'm asking here because I'm sure more than a few of you have moved from 
> Exchange to Postfix, or other Linux mailserver.
> 
> Migrated from MS mailserver, still using outlook* at a client.
> some people are having their outgoing messages blocked by addresses with 
> square brackets, I'm familiar with using <> in email addresses but not [].
> * not for long!!!

Can you give us an example?  Square brackets are used for domain 
literals like this:

martyn@[66.29.2.129]

It depends on your mail server configuration as to whether it'll 
accept them or not.

Regards,

	Martyn
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