I missed that, sorry, indeed, that's not valid.

Norman Franke
Answering Service for Directors, Inc.
www.myasd.com



On May 18, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Ray Nicholus wrote:

> Having a plus in the domain of your email address is effectively not valid
> as this type of a domain is not allowed by DNS.  Character with an accent
> are also not allowed in email addresses.  See RFC 5322 section 3.2.3
> (mirrored at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.2.3).  Quotes are
> also not allowed in this case as this is not allowed by DNS (see the quote
> after the domain).
> 
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Norman Franke <nor...@myasd.com> wrote:
> 
>> Having a + is valid. Some email systems allow users to filter based on
>> stuff after the +, so joe+...@bar.com would still go to j...@bar.com, but
>> he could then filter it into folders. I used to do this in college.
>> 
>> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address
>> 
>> The format of email addresses is local-part@domain where the local-part
>> may be up to 64 characters long and the domain name may have a maximum of
>> 253 characters - but the maximum 256 characters length of a forward or
>> reverse path restricts the entire email address to be no more than 254
>> characters.[1] The formal definitions are in RFC 5322 (sections 3.2.3 and
>> 3.4.1) and RFC 5321 - with a more readable form given in the informational
>> RFC 3696[2] and the associated errata.
>> [edit]
>> Local part
>> The local-part of the email address may use any of these ASCII characters
>> RFC 5322 Section 3.2.3, RFC 6531 permits Unicode beyond the ASCII range:
>> Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a–z, A–Z) (ASCII: 65-90, 97-122)
>> Digits 0 to 9 (ASCII: 48-57)
>> Characters !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~ (ASCII: 33, 35-39, 42, 43, 45, 47, 61, 63,
>> 94-96, 123-126)
>> Character . (dot, period, full stop) (ASCII: 46) provided that it is not
>> the first or last character, and provided also that it does not appear two
>> or more times consecutively (e.g. john.....@example.com is not allowed.).
>> Special characters are allowed with restrictions. They are:
>> Space and "(),:;<>@[\] (ASCII: 32, 34, 40, 41, 44, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64,
>> 91-93)
>> The restrictions for special characters are that they must only be used
>> when contained between quotation marks, and that 3 of them (The space,
>> backslash \ and quotation mark " (ASCII: 32, 92, 34)) must also be preceded
>> by a backslash \ (e.g. "\ \\\"").
>> Comments are allowed with parentheses, e.g. "john.smith(comment)@
>> example.com", "john(comment).sm...@example.com", and "joh(comment)
>> n.sm...@example.com" are all equivalent to "john.sm...@example.com"
>> International characters above U+007F are permitted by RFC 6531, though
>> mail systems may restrict which characters to use when assigning local
>> parts.
>> 
>> Norman Franke
>> Answering Service for Directors, Inc.
>> www.myasd.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 18, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Ray Nicholus wrote:
>> 
>>> Examples of currently allowed (and invalid) addresses:
>>> 
>>> accent char - ép...@example.com
>>> '+' in domain - test@foo+example.com
>>> '/' in domain - test@example/com
>>> wrapped in single quotes - 'f...@example.com'
>>> wrapped in double quotes - "f...@example.com"
>>> 
>>> Is there currently a case in JIRA to address this?
>> 
>> 

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