[thelist] SMTP quirk: is an apostrophe legal in the email add y?

Scott Dexter sgd at ti3.com
Wed Feb 7 19:47:31 CST 2001


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Dexter [mailto:sgd at ti3.com]

> For example, is this a legal email address: 
> mark.o'connor at myserver.com ?

yes, it is legal. Paraphrased from RFC 841, pages 30 and 31

<c> ::=  any one of the 128 ASCII characters, but not any
                      <special> or <SP>

<SP> = space (ASCII 32)

<special> = < > ( ) [ ] \ . , ; : @ " or the control
                      characters (ASCII codes 0 through 31 inclusive and
                      127)

sgd
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