Re: obscure email address formats

Ah. That was one of the things I presumed to be long dead :-)

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:32:36PM -0400, Carl Friedberg wrote:
> Outbound (if you are sending e-mail to an external server) there might be either of these formats:
> 
> xtl.com:[email protected]
> foobar%[email protected]
> 
> I use both of those formats with a mail forwarding service.
> 
> Carl Friedberg
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ArkanoiD
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 4:30 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [fw-wiz] obscure email address formats
> 
> 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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