> The reason I listed the ; : and , were that those are normal email > address separator conventions.
FTR, neither ; nor : are RFC-acceptable as address separators. In fact, they have RFC meanings that preclude their use as unescaped characters within an RFC 2822 message. Specifically, ; denotes the end of a named list, and : is used both to commence named list expansion and to separate header field names from their content. This is not to say that the space character has a connected SMTP RFC meaning, either, but simply that the allusion in general doesn't work. On Windows, the DNS dialog box lists servers on different lines. In the *nix world (where all this wonderful stuff comes from), the resolv.conf file lists nameservers (with the literal 'nameserver' keyword) on separate lines. This would likely e a more intuitive layout. > The simple point is that nobody would know what the specific > convention (in this case the space) IS. I agree, but I think documenting it WITHIN the SMTP dialog itself would suffice. -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
