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

[Joe Crawford]

Scott Dexter wrote:
> My gut feeling is no, but while I'm digging through RFC's, does someone know
> off the top of their head?
> 
> For example, is this a legal email address: mark.o'connor at myserver.com ?

I seem to recall any ol' damn thing as legal - even spaces are legal as
long as you escape them, If I remember right. Now whether what *works*
is different from what's *legal* I dunno.

I just tried:
	"super ape & ^_^ 'mon"@artlung.com
and the simpler
	FOO'BAR at artlung.com

to myself and it worked - tried it with pine and netscape communicator.

The relevant RFC you want is 822.

HTH,
	Joe
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