On 14 Jun 2002, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> I'd go further than that - in general I'd expect local_parts to match
> ^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9+:._-]*$
>
> ie leading alphanumeric, followed by alphanumerics and a few special
> characters. Definitely avoiding things like /\ shell meta chars etc.
I'm happy to add "begins with ." to the default prohibitions, but I
don't think I want to go further than that.
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