Subject: RE: dotted names in smtp/email?
jblagg@dataflowalaska.com
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 14:32:18 AKST
Lee,
RFC 822 and 821 says to keep away from the following:
\"<>()[],;:
and spaces.=20
I should also note that there are some anti-spam filters that
will bounce email where the addresses contain a certain proportion of
"strange characters" even though they may be okay. Also, some email
services have a name length limitation, and will not deliver email from
long-winded addresses.
Yours,
JB
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
lee@afabco.com
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:10 PM
To: Aklug
Subject: dotted names in smtp/email?
I'm setting up an smtp/cyrus mail server for some folks to use in their
company. It'll be mostly internal, but of course some will go out to
other
folks.
They want to use dotted names to the left of the @, eg,
lee.thomison@bozo.com instead of leethomison or lee_thomison.
I have a vague nagging rememberance of some subtle sneaky nasties and
gotchas that can happen if we use dots to the left of the @ so it's a
bad
idea. Is this right, or does it matter?
thanks!
Lee
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