On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 14:44, William Waggoner wrote: > I hate to disagree but ... > > RFC-0822 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html) allows the local-part to > contain single quotes.
William, The current rfc is 2822. After reading it, does your assertion that Mailman is broken still stand? RFC 2822 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html > It also specifically allows, as a specified syntax, quoted strings as the > local part. > > The characters that are not allowed outside of quoted strings are: > > specials = "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@" ; Must be in quoted- > / "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <"> ; string, to use > / "." / "[" / "]" ; within a word. > > SPACE, and CTL characters. > > Note that the period is used as a word separator, it IS allowed but is > considered a separator, not part of the word. > > It is Mailman that is broken. -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py