> -----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 -- work: http://www.ti3.com/ non: http://thinksafely.org/