backslash in addresses?

[David R Bosso]

--On July 13, 2005 9:49:34 AM -0500 alex at milivojevic.org wrote:

> I haven't really checked RFCs to see if "\" is allowed charcter in an
> email
> address.  It might be that it is, or that it isn't, or it might be that
> RFCs
> simply discourage its use.

It doesn't appear to be allowed by RFC2822 in local-part as it appears in 
"specials" and not "atext".

<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html>

-David

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