Re: Missing ABNF terms in 2821bis?

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <p06250107c33beb57b529@[74.134.5.163]> Pete Resnick <[email protected]> writes:

>Right now, control characters are allowed in the following:

>- Domain literals on the right hand side of addresses

Well that's certainly one place they could and should go.

>- Quoted strings (which can be on the left hand size of addresses as 
>well as lots of other structured header fields)

And they are not really very clever there, given that allows them in
local-parts, which are a part of the addressing process.

>- Comments (which can appear in lots of structured header fields 
>including address fields)
>- Unstructured text (in fields and in the body)

But I don't care much either way about those two.

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