Re: [Exim] spaces and Eudora

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Leonardo Boselli
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] spaces and Eudora
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Leonardo Boselli wrote:

> RFC822 state that spaces in address are not significant, so either
> " realusername@" and "realusername@" should be considered the same.


I would expect spaces within quotes to be significant. Indeed, the
formal syntax in RFC 822 actually says "including linear-white-space" in
its definition of qtext, the characters inside quotes.

But anyway, %20realusername is perfectly valid as a local part in
RFC822, as is "%20realusername".

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