On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 12:39:39PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:34:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I'm thinking of this slightly obscure service called email. It might > > possibly be affected by such brain damage. Why can't the bug submitter > > make to with +, ., and other such characters? > > According to my very brief examination of RFC2822, a quoted-string is > permitted as the local prt of an address, so it should be possible to > address email to, for example, "username@withatsign"@example.com. > Then, I guess the relevant question has to do with whether or not adduser (and the rest of the components that touch or use the username) are RFC2822 compliant. BTW, I was not aware of RFC2822, but I would think that since the @ is used as the standard username and hostname seperator, you would not want to use it as part of the user name. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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