[Wylug-discuss] Re: [Wylug-help] Illegal characters in email addresses.

[Jim Jackson]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Jim Jackson wrote:

>
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, James Holden wrote:
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>> Yes, it's legal.
>> 
>> No, not much stuff treats it as such.
>> 
>> Pretty much any printable 7 bit ascii character is legal in a mail 
>> address, with hilarious consequences to off-guard developers.
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> The hairy details are in rfc2822 section 3. Syntax
> Not for the faint hearted :-)

Sorry my bad, in too much of a hurry hadn't read all the email!
cock up on the Grandmother/sucking/eggs situation

Jim

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>> 
>> James
>> 
>> 
>> Simon Wood wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> I came across an email with a "'" in it.
>>> 
>>> Looking at RFC2822 it appears to be legal, but when replying to it exim4 
>>> kicks up the following error:
>>> ---
>>> * Connecting to SMTP server: localhost ...
>>> [18:48:53] SMTP< 220 slone.mungewell.org ESMTP Exim 4.50 Mon, 06 Jun 
>>> 2005 18:48:53 -0600
>>> [18:48:53] SMTP> HELO slone.mungewell.org
>>> [18:48:53] SMTP< 250 slone.mungewell.org Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
>>> [18:48:53] SMTP> MAIL FROM:<simon at mungewell.org>
>>> [18:48:53] SMTP< 250 OK
>>> [18:48:53] SMTP> RCPT TO:<simon'stest at localhost>
>>> [18:48:53] SMTP< 550 restricted characters in address
>>> ** error occurred on SMTP session
>>> ** Error occurred while sending the message.
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> What's even more confusing is that it has already passed through exim4 
>>> on the inward journey, see log:
>>> ---
>>> 2005-06-06 16:36:00 1DfQCO-0000TJ-3F <= Catherine_O'Brien at opusframing.ca 
>>> H=localhost (mungewell.org) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp
>>> S=1654 id=fc.000f7cf20013ddad3b9aca009cd41b91.13ddb5 at opusframing.ca 
>>> 2005-06-06 16:36:00 1DfQCO-0000TJ-3F => kriszi <krisztina at mungewell.org> 
>>> R=local_user T=mail_spool
>>> 2005-06-06 16:36:00 1DfQCO-0000TJ-3F Completed
>>> ---
>>> and then:
>>> ---
>>> 2005-06-06 17:57:51 H=localhost (slone.mungewell.org) [127.0.0.1] 
>>> F=<krisztina at mungewell.org> rejected RCPT <Catherine_O'Brien at opusf
>>> raming.ca>: restricted characters in address
>>> 2005-06-06 17:57:58 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command 
>>> from localhost (slone.mungewell.org) [127.0.0.1]
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> Can anyone confirm whether "'" is/is not legal before I file a bug 
>>> report.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Simon.
>>> 
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