FOAK RFC2822

<sigh>

It had to happen eventually in Belfast Trust.

xxxxx.o'hara@b......

Is that <'> character remotely civilised in an email address

 

The wiki looks easier to understand than the RFC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address (if it's correct). According
to that the ' character is allowed. I think some servers do struggle
with it though (Notes/Domino used to IIRC)

You can also have an email address in the form "blah blah
blah"@domainname - I didn't know that.

 

According to Wikipedia: allowable characters are for the local part of
the e-mail address are:

# Uppercase and lowercase English letters (a-z, A-Z)
# Digits 0 through 9
# Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~
^
RFC 5322

 

Sigh. I can remember the days when ! was reserved for UUCP
bang-pathing. And when the % character was used for routing too..

I think I'm getting old.

Phil

 

I just did a test alias of o'noes @ prawn . mine . nu. It seemed to work!

 

I remember when having p@ly as an email address used to **** things up a
bit.

 

The problem is that you'll have no end of difficulty with people's
brain-dead implementations of email address verification on web forms
and the like. Which might be a feature, not a bug, depending on your
state of mind.

 

What are you paid to appear to care about now?

 

Yep, I believe it's a valid character, but personally I'd avoid it.

 

Obama did, and look what happened to him.

 

...and what about Tim o'Glock, the famous orish F1 pedler?