> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gaetano Mendola [mailto:mendola@bigfoot.com]
> Sent: 17 May 2004 17:02
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Bruno Wolff III; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Email data type
>
>
> Well I think that accept an email like:
>
> gmendola@192.168.212.2
>
> is a risky.
>
> It's true that any RFC forbid this kind of emails, so I can
> accept it and leave to the final user the opportunity to
> extract the domain an validate it.
Forbidden on the 'net with good reason, but useful internally on private
networks for testing, and probably various other reasons where you might
want to direct a message to a specific interface rather than a hostname
or MX.
Regards, Dave
