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As an aside, I received an email from a government department recently that had an '&' character as part of the email address. I didn't think that was valid, b
by cyberferret 10y ago
As an aside, I received an email from a government department recently that had an '&' character as part of the email address. I didn't think that was valid, but lo and behold, when I checked the specs, it IS indeed a valid character in an email address.
Just goes to show that assumptions are often wrong, and you have to crack open the spec document from time to time... [1]
[1] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822
- lucb1e 10y agoI have a feeling somewhere on the Internet is the story of the sysadmin who got the request from that department for an email address with an ampersand. S/he probably stopped themselves from replying "uh, that doesn't work", tried it, and then learned it's valid.