Posted by John Dunlop on 09/10/05 10:17

Tim Roberts wrote:

> John Dunlop <usenet+2004@john.dunlop.name> wrote:
>
>> From: foo@bar.invalid (foo)
>>
>>is not allowed to be generated under RFC2822.
>
> No, this is specifically allowed by RFC2822, although new implementations
> are discouraged from using it.

from = "From:" mailbox-list CRLF
mailbox-list = (mailbox *("," mailbox)) / obs-mbox-list
mailbox = name-addr / addr-spec

It can't be a name-addr because there are no greater-/less-than
signs, so that leaves:

addr-spec = local-part "@" domain

No room for comments there.

--
Jock

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