>> We have to strictly follow the RFCs.<br><br>Japanese mobile-phone providers Au and Docomo use things like the following, in violation of the relevant RFCs:<br><a href="mailto:aaa.@docomo.ne.jp">aaa.@docomo.ne.jp</a>
<br><br>From experience supporting an application that couldn't send to these non-standard addresses, there appear to be enough people in Japan using them (I'd wildly speculate 0.5% to 1% of mobile phone e-mail addresses in this nation of 120 million people) to cause problems.
<br><br>Obviously it's up to the VTiger team whether they decide they want to make
allowances for other people ignoring the relevant standards; Since a number of other web applications and mail servers will potentially choke on these things, I guess there would be a case for refusing to let them into your system at the validation stage. But non-geek users who know nothing of RFCs will presumably consider this to be a bug in VTiger.
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<br>I can't find any English-language sources for this, but for reference, here's an explanation of the problem in Japanese<br><a href="http://neta.ywcafe.net/000435.html">http://neta.ywcafe.net/000435.html</a><br>
...and this page has some Java code that people are using for validation to work around this problem:<br><a href="http://tech.g.hatena.ne.jp/koseki/20060707">http://tech.g.hatena.ne.jp/koseki/20060707</a><br><br>Edmund Edgar
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