• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    "Yes that is my Email"@abc is a valid e-mail address, I’m pretty sure.

    I mean, most mail providers will not allow you to register that, and most registration forms will reject such an e-mail address, but the spec allows it.

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      7 months ago

      Technically, you are correct. Which is the best kind of correct. Just for shits and giggles, I tried to create such an address on my own self-hosted mail server. It wouldn’t let me do it, and didn’t know what to do with the quotation marks at all. So there’s that. Damn you, reality!

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        7 months ago

        Stalw.art allowed me to create an email with spaces. Thunderbird also allowed me to send to the address, even though it has a warning symbol and says “[…] is not a valid email address”.
        And to my surprise it was also delivered sucessfully.

        Edit: I also wanted to see if Lemmy allowed spaced emails. It does not :(