>A test-only email address should be recognized in standards, much as >test-only domains exist (e.g., example.com and *.test), for similar >purposes of having a token that can safely escape into the wild from >internal use and documentation without fear of representing an actual >account. I did not find an RFC or other standard providing this. I fear you are about 25 years too late. It has long been a normal configuration to have a "catch all" domain in which every possible address is valid. Typically all go to the same place or a small set of places. This lets mail get delivered even if the address was typed slightly wrong, e.g., john@xxxxxxxxxxx vs jon@xxxxxxxxxxx, and it lets you make up per correspondent addresses which are handy when you're signing up for lists and web sites you don't entirely trust. On today's Internet where 95% of mail is spam, catachall domains aren't as attractive as they once were, but there are lots of them and they're not going away. Regards, John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf