Single quote characters in local part of email address - Debian

This is a discussion on Single quote characters in local part of email address - Debian ; Hello, Does anyone know if single quote (apostrophe)characters are permitted in the local part of an email address? Based on my limited understanding of rfc2822, they are. If they are rfc-compliant then why does the default Exim4 configuration rejects these ...

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  1. Single quote characters in local part of email address

    Hello,

    Does anyone know if single quote (apostrophe)characters are
    permitted in the local part of an email address? Based on my
    limited understanding of rfc2822, they are.

    If they are rfc-compliant then why does the default Exim4
    configuration rejects these with a "restricted characters in
    address" message?

    Know hot do disable this restriction, but I would like to know if
    there is a good reason not to do so.


    Thank you in advance,

    --
    George Borisov

    DXSolutions Ltd


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  2. Re: Single quote characters in local part of email address

    Andrew McGlashan wrote:
    >
    > I would wonder why you would want to risk the email not functioning
    > properly, even if you exim4 server is happy after adjustments. Other
    > mail servers both sending and receiving could reject the mail due to the
    > same reason.
    >
    > A "solution" of sorts is to do something like this:
    > "Fred's Email "
    > - this way, you have the friendly name in the presentation, but an
    > otherwise perfectly reasonable and 100% acceptable 'real' email address..

    That would be great, but this server is a mail relay for our
    broadband customers. As such, we have absolutely no control over
    the email addresses involved.


    Thanks for your input anyway.

    --
    George Borisov

    DXSolutions Ltd


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