thanks philip. very informative.
sandro
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:42:48 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
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> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
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> > 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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