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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