Are two periods allowed in the local-part of an email address?
- by Mike B
A third-party email gateway relay is refusing to process a message for an email address we're sending to. The address is in the format of firstname..lastname@recipientdomain.com (note the two periods). Is this allowed by RFC guidelines?
RFC 2822 seems to object to this in section 3.4.1:
The locally interpreted string is either a…