Re: Allowing Special Characters in Email addresses

2021-03-25 Thread Dan Mahoney
This really feels to me like a “oh crap somebody put this email address on 10,000 pieces of customer correspondence and now we have to support it” problem. It’s about the only excuse I would consider valid. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 25, 2021, at 19:00, John Levine wrote: > > It appears th

Re: Allowing Special Characters in Email addresses

2021-03-25 Thread John Levine
It appears that Wietse Venema said: >According to Exim documentation (link below) the '!' and '%' are >not special in email addresses, so we know that at least it does >not appear to break legitimate usage. Technically, that is correct. According to the local-part syntax in RFCs 5321 and 5322,