[PL #13500] Join Request Trouble

[Scott Karlin via RT]

Email Recipients (see http://www.planet-lab.org/Support)
       Owner: Nobody
       Requestor: scott at cs.princeton.edu


==================================================

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:43:40PM -0400, Mark Huang via RT wrote:
> Email Recipients (see http://www.planet-lab.org/Support)
>        Owner: Nobody
>        Requestor: scott at cs.princeton.edu
> 
> 
> ==================================================
> 
> Scott Karlin via RT wrote:
> > Please fix join request web form and/or API to accept the "/"
> > character in e-mail addresses.  I'm trying to approve the
> > one from "Queen Mary, University of London" and get an API
> > error.
> 
> Is "/" an acceptable character? I've never seen an address with "/" in it.
> 
> --Mark

Yup, see RFC2822 <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt> and this
Wikipedia article which summarizes the RFC:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address>

Basically, the local-part of the e-mail may use any of these ASCII characters:
 * Uppercase and lowercase letters
 * The digits 0 through 9
 * The characters, ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~
 * The character "." provided that it is not the first or
   last character in the local-part.

Scott