On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 23:23 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> I am managing a list server running on Mailman+Exim and someone has
> requested that I create a list named (say)
> jack&jill@???
Allowing for shell expansion problems within your login shell, MLM and
MTA might be tricky - but it's worth noting that & is a permissible
character within the specification of RFC5322:
3.2.3. Atom
Several productions in structured header field bodies are simply
strings of certain basic characters. Such productions are called
atoms.
<snip>
atext = ALPHA / DIGIT / ; Printable US-ASCII
"!" / "#" / ; characters not including
"$" / "%" / ; specials. Used for atoms.
"&" / "'" /
"*" / "+" /
"-" / "/" /
"=" / "?" /
"^" / "_" /
"`" / "{" /
"|" / "}" /
"~"
atom = [CFWS] 1*atext [CFWS]
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You may struggle to get mailman to accept the "special" chars which your
shell struggles with, but they're not technically illegal within the
RFCs.
Sorry :)
Graeme
