On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Michael Brown wrote:

> The | character is not allowed in any e-mail address because it's a Unix 
> shell reserved character.
> 
> Here's a list right off the top of my head that are usually 
> blocked/disabled by just about every MTA out there.
> 
>    1. Control Characters
>    2. Space
>    3. !
>    4. "
>    5. #
>    6. $
>    7. %
>    8. &
>    9. (
>   10. )
>   11. *
>   12. ,
>   13. /
>   14. :
>   15. ;
>   16. <
>   17.  >
>   18. @ (when used more than once)
>   19. [
>   20. \
>   21. ]
>   22. |
>   23. DEL

There's certainly something wrong here.  The open and close bracket 
characters ('[' and ']', items 19 and 21) can indeed be part of a valid 
email address.  For example:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Alan Stern

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