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> It's left open to interpretation from my reading of the relevant RFC No. The part of the spec you quoted says that if the local part of the email address is
by hk__2 8y ago
> It's left open to interpretation from my reading of the relevant RFC
No. The part of the spec you quoted says that if the local part of the email address is in the format "atext+ (\. atext+)*" where atext is "Any character except controls, [spaces], and specials", then the quoted-string form shouldn’t be used. In other words, don’t use quotes when you don’t need them. This has nothing to do with how to "interpret" dots; they are interpreted like any other char except they can’t occur everywhere in the local part (e.g. "foo.@bar.com" isn’t valid).
- technofiend 8y ago>The locally interpreted string is either a quoted-string or a dot-atom That's pretty clearly stating (to me) that the dot-atom is locally interpreted. It doesn't say anything about how to interpret a dot-atom. Just to use it in preference to the quoted string if the rules you mention apply.
- megous 8y agoYou're mixing up two different concepts. E-mail address and mailbox. Multiple e-mail addresses can be used to deliver to the same mailbox. That's what "local intepretation" means. a.a@b is still a different address than aa@b.
- felipelemos 8y agoAnd in the end is what happens with gmail. You have one mailbox and all versions of your mailbox with dots in between the characters as alias automatically.