Re: [Sheflug] NTL and email addresses

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Brown <simon [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>     Simon> NTL's smtp server rejected it as an invalid email address
>     Simon> as it contains control characters. I was wondering if
>     Simon> anyone knew which characters are illegal in e-mail
>     Simon> addresses and in which part?
>
> See RFC 822 for all the gory details.  Maybe some of RFC 821.

You're out of date ;-)  RFCs 821 and 822 have been obsoleted by 2821 and
2822 (no way that's a coincidence IMHO) as of last week.  There are no
major changes - they've just condensed and clarified those two and their
modifying RFCs for the most part.

Cheers

R

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