On Thu, 6 May 2004, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> My suspicion is that Some Other MTA (tm) allows it, just like it allows
> spaces between the name and the colon in alias files.
It's a consequence of the 822 syntax.
optional-field = field-name ":" unstructured CRLF
field-name = 1*ftext
ftext = %d33-57 / ; Any character except
%d59-126 ; controls, SP, and
; ":".
obs-optional = field-name *WSP ":" unstructured CRLF
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