Re: Looking for types: phone number, email addresses

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Josh Jore <josh(at)greentechnologist(dot)org>
Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer(at)nic(dot)fr>, Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Looking for types: phone number, email addresses
Date: 2002-07-19 16:45:18
Message-ID: 20020719164518.GA13657@wolff.to
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:11:43 -0500,
Josh Jore <josh(at)greentechnologist(dot)org> wrote:
> Remember to allow quotes and spaces as well. This is a valid address (no,
> not that I actually defined it as an alias):
>
> "Josh Jore"@greentechnologist.org

You may not want to store rfc 821 encodings of addresses.
Josh Jore(at)greentechnologist(dot)org
is a valid email address. It just needs to be encoded when used in an
smtp transaction. Some MUAs don't have a way to inject messages with
unencoded email addresses. Others (such as qmail) do. Constraints on
unencoded addresses are going to be a lot simpler than those on rfc 821
encoded addresses.

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