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by devjam 2310 days ago
Nor does it accept "+" characters in the email address localpart, as allowed in RFC822 (1982).
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I recently learned that single words are considered valid email addresses... e.g. "foo" or "root".
Isn’t that how mail gets routed to local user mailboxes?
Yes, exactly. I just never expected an email parser to recognize those cases.