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Re: obscure email address formats
From: Carson Gaspar <carson () taltos org>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:13:29 -0700
On 5/23/11 1:30 PM, ArkanoiD wrote:
Is there any good reason to allow email addresses (in smtp, imap and alikes) in any format different from mailbox@fqdn ? There is plenty of other stuff defined in RFCs and I wonder if anyone really uses it so I should *not* just filter it out.
I assume you really mean mailbox@fqdn for the actual address part only, but in case you didn't...
mailbox@fqdn isn't enough - you must at _least_ handle full names in the address etc. The quoting rules are byzantine, but really required as mail clients emit all sorts of stuff.
I don't think there is any reason to support ! or % addressing any more. Be careful when you validate "mailbox" so that you allow all legal names (unlike !@##$% javascript validators that refuse user+subfolder@fqdn addresses).
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