Re: [Sheflug] NTL and email addresses

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

* Richard Stevenson (richard.stevenson [at] team.xtra.co.nz) wrote:
> 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 You're out of date ;-)  RFCs 821 and 822 have been obsoleted by 2821 and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.


I think I read somewhere that they reserved the numbers.

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