Re: obscure email address formats

I am mostly think of:

quoted strings and escaped characters in local part,
source routing variants and bang paths,
and ipv4/ipv6 literals instead of domain

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:18:31PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> what sort of obscure formats are you thinking of eliminating?
> 
> there's good reason to allow mailbox+folder@fqdn for some people that's 
> considered obscure, for others it's just less common.
> 
> David Lang
> 
> On Tue, 24 May 2011, ArkanoiD wrote:
> 
> >Is there any good reason to allow email addresses (in smtp, imap and 
> >alikes)
> >in any format different from mailbox@fqdn ?
> >
> >There is plenty of other stuff defined in RFCs and I wonder if anyone 
> >really uses it so
> >I should *not* just filter it out.
> >
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