John C Klensin wrote:
If you are trying to use the addresses to send mail over the public
Internet, RFC2821 contains the authoritative definition.
Thank you.
As stated in section 4.5.3.1 the sizes are clear to me now, though
there's still some confusion about the allowed characters.
I want to make sure which characters are allowed in the local-part and
domain of an e-mail address. Section 2.3.1 states: "The content is
textual in nature, expressed using the US-ASCII repertoire [1]." and
section 4.5.2 states: "The mail data may contain any of the 128 ASCII
characters.". Does this mean that the control characters are allowed in
the local-part and domain? Also, what about characters like: "\ / : * ?
" < > |"? Should these (and others) be allowed?
Hi,
Can you tell me, or point me to a resource, what the official
specs are for an e-mail address? I would like to know what the
official limitations are if it comes to allowed characters and
maximum address lenght.
I'm sorry to ask this while there probably are RFC's for this
but the whole RFC stuff is a bit of a maze to me. They all
point to different RFC's again and I wasn't able to find one
RFC with the complete official (easy to understand) specs.
I hope you can help me out.
Cheers,
Age Bosma
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