Kind of OT: guess what I found!
Steve Freegard
steve.freegard at fsl.com
Mon Feb 23 14:08:32 GMT 2009
David Lee wrote:
> Thanks for the ack, Steve.
>
> But would even your intended (space-less) version be legal? It contains
> commas. Chasing down the RFC822 syntax:
>
> msg-id = "<" addr-spec ">"
>
> addr-spec = local-part "@" domain
>
> local-part = word *("." word)
>
> word = atom / quoted-string
>
> atom = 1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs>
>
> and 'specials' includes ",".
>
> Won't the embedded "," still put you on the wrong side of the law?
>
Yeah - ooops; we definitely missed that. I'm just in the process of
getting this changed to use the '|' symbol as a delimeter instead.
Kind Regards,
Steve
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