[Info-vax] bizarre SMTP problem

[Steven Underwood]

"Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
news:176uZD2KcidF-pn2-PXhqF33pn2BN at rikki.tavi.co.uk...
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:57:15 UTC, JF Mezei
> <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Then it appears to be a bug, since '+' is perfectly valid as a character
> in an email address, as per RFC 2822 section 3.4.1.
> -- 
> Bob Eager
>

That may be, but there are lots of systems that do not honor plussed 
addressing.  My mail provider (SpamCop.net) allows for plussed addressing 
but many web based systems find those addresses to be illegally formatted.