Re: Another issue: quoting
Roy Badami <[email protected]>
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I had these exact same concerns two months ago, and careful reading of RFC 822 clarified some things. D. J. Bernstein has already pointed to section 3.4.4 of RFC 822, which explains that the backslashes used to quote the next character, and the quotation marks around quoted-strings, are not part of the data, and should not be retained outside a message-header context. As for the atom/dot structure, section 6.2.4 explains that it is not significant. So in your example above, roy.badami and "roy.badami" do in fact refer to the same mailbox, even though they parse differently. Thanks for the reference to 6.2.4. It appears that I'm just plain wrong here. I don't see what's wrong with defining a new term. Not worth persuing this line of discussion; my comment was based on a misapprehension of what RFC822 said. -roy