OT Question

OT Question

[Lee Willis]

Erm, just a sort of off-topic question here but I figured that you guys
would know the answer ...

Is if possible to have the ' character in an email
address. Ie. k.o'brien or something similar?  or is that (As I suspect)
"The Wrong Thing"?

Thanks for any help,
Lee.
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Re: OT Question

[Kai.Grossjohann]

Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk> writes:

  > Is if possible to have the ' character in an email
  > address. Ie. k.o'brien or something similar?  or is that (As I suspect)
  > "The Wrong Thing"?

An email address contains a `simple mailbox specification' (user@host)
which probably mustn't contain quotes, but let's say that Ms O'Brien
is reachable as kob@frob.org, then the following would be a good
address:

    "K. O'Brien" <kob@frob.org>

Maybe even something like

    "K. O'Brien" <"k.o'brien@frob.org">

will work, but I doubt it.

kai
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Re: OT Question

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "LW" == Lee Willis <lee@gbdirect.co.uk> writes:

LW> Is if possible to have the ' character in an email
LW> address.

The forward single quote (39, 0x27, 047) is not special in any way
according to RFC822.  The grammar is convoluted because some things are
special in some places, but here are some basic elements.

     ALPHA       =  <any ASCII alphabetic character>
                                                 ; (101-132, 65.- 90.)
                                                 ; (141-172, 97.-122.)
     atom        =  1*<any CHAR except specials, SPACE and CTLs>
     CHAR        =  <any ASCII character>        ; (  0-177,  0.-127.)
     CTL         =  <any ASCII control           ; (  0- 37,  0.- 31.)
                     character and DEL>          ; (    177,     127.)
     specials    =  "(" / ")" / "<" / ">" / "@"  ; Must be in quoted-
                 /  "," / ";" / ":" / "\" / <">  ;  string, to use
                 /  "." / "[" / "]"              ;  within a word.

Most things are built out of atoms.

LW> Ie. k.o'brien or something similar?

Well, in that example you must note that the period is special.  It must be
quoted in certain places.

 - J<