On 2004-05-06 Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:
> 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
"except SP". space is ASCII 32 and not included in "%d33-57", isn't
it?
cu andreas
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