On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> is there anywhere (an RFC for example) which indicates what
> letters/numbers/symbols
> are acceptable to be used within an alias email name?
Pretty well anything, provided it is quoted correctly, can be used in
the local part of an email address. RFC 2822 defines what can appear in
header lines; RFC 2821 defines what can appear in envelopes (there are
slight variations).
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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