Re: [Exim] square brackets in To header

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Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] square brackets in To header
According to Nigel Metheringham:
> On 05 Jul 2001 13:17:41 +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > But, in the To: header, Customer Name [some info] <email@domain>
> > is absolutely legal. What exactly is breaking ?
>
> although with special characters in there you should have the stuff
> quoted:-
> To: "Customer Name [some info]" <email@domain>


[ and ] aren't special characters, AFAIK. Yes, used as a domain
literal, but that isn't true in this case.

RFC822 (and 2822) allow *really weird* addresses in headers

Mike.