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Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP


From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:52:27 +0000

John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

There are also some odd things in the spec.  For example, according to
RFC 5321 this is not a syntactically valid e-mail address:

mailbox@[IPv6:2001:12:34:56::78:ab:cd]

You aren't allowed to use :: to abbreviate one zero hexadectet according
to RFC 5952.

http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?eid=2467

Tony.
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