It's NOT qmail that is saying that.  What MUA are you using?  An '=' is a
perfectly valid character in an email address.

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Is an '=' an illegal character in an email 
> address?
> 
> I am running qmail-1.03 on two diferent machines 
> and all seems to work well (indide and out) I 
> have also installed ezmlm on one...
> 
> I send a message to subscribe and get a response 
> from ezmlm withe the authorization message that 
> has a huge email address that contains 1 equal 
> symbol. 
> 
> When I try to reply to this my qmail (without the 
> ezmlm) tells me that the address contains illegal 
> characters...
> Testing different addresses I have determined 
> that it is the = that it is having trouble with...
> 
> (it dosen't make it to the machine with ezmlm, 
> which is why I am asking on the qmail-list 
> instead of the ezmlm list *wink*)
> 
> Any help appreciated..
> 
> Wil. 
> 
> (BTW, I used to be a devout sendmailist, but I 
> will never look at it again! Qmail is the best!)
> 
> 
> 
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