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.
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> On Mar 25, 2021, at 19:00, John Levine wrote:
>
> It appears th
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,