On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Depends on what you do with the mail. e.g it will fail horribly if you
> try to deliver to /var/mail/$local_part because "/" cannot be used as
> part of filenames. (And that is probably the main reason for
> disallowing "/".)
Yes. The disallowing by default is a "safety catch" for sysadmins who
may not realize the full consequences. The RFCs, of course, allow almost
any character in a local part, if suitably escaped.
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