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Like ...name@web.de which looks cool with certain short names, but which is also rejected by many mailing programs.

If you can point out to me a big-market mailer that rejects valid RFC2822 addresses, I'd be thankful. I know that SMTP (RFC 2821) handles everything that RFC2822 can dish out, and that all popular Unix MTAs handle 2822 addresses.

So far, the only problem I've seen with "unusual" addresses are with overzealous web forms.

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In reply to •Re^2: On Validating Email Addresses by merlyn
in thread On Validating Email Addresses by dws

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