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The format of an email address is local-part@domain, where the local-part may be up to 64 octets long and the domain may have a maximum of 255 octets. [5] The formal definitions are in RFC 5322 (sections 3.2.3 and 3.4.1) and RFC 5321—with a more readable form given in the informational RFC 3696 (written by J. Klensin, the author of RFC 5321) and the associated errata.
A mailbox name is the first part of an email address, also known as local-part; that is, the part before the @ symbol. Its format is formally specified by RFC 5322 and RFC 5321. It is often the username of the recipient on the mail server or in the destination domain. The local-part may be up to 64 characters long and, in theory, is case-sensitive.
The basic Internet message format used for email [33] is defined by RFC 5322, with encoding of non-ASCII data and multimedia content attachments defined in RFC 2045 through RFC 2049, collectively called Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions or MIME. The extensions in International email apply only to email. RFC 5322 replaced RFC 2822 in 2008.
Internet Message Format: RFC 196, RFC 772, RFC 821, RFC 822, RFC 2821, RFC 2822, RFC 5321, RFC 5322 Simple Network Management Protocol: RFC 1067, RFC 1098, RFC 1157 (v.1), RFC 1441 (v.2) RFC 2570 (v.3) Stream Control Transmission Protocol: RFC 2960, RFC 4960, RFC 3286 Tag URI scheme: RFC 4151 TELNET: RFC 15, RFC 854, RFC 855 Transmission ...
RFC 5322 – Internet Message Format (obsoletes RFC 822 aka STD 11, and RFC 2822) RFC 5504 – Downgrading Mechanism for Email Address Internationalization; RFC 6409 – Message Submission for Mail (STD 72) (obsoletes RFC 4409, RFC 2476)
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2. In the "To" field, type the name or email address of your contact. 3. In the "Subject" field, type a brief summary of the email. 4. Type your message in the body of the email. 5. Click Send. Want to write your message using the full screen? Click the Expand email icon at the top of the message.
The only text strings that define an “email address” are the ‘Local-part’ and ‘Domain’ of RFC-5321, which correspond to the ‘local-part’ and ‘domain’ of RFC-5322. These two strings joined by an ‘@’ character (code point decimal 64) are, in both documents, what people know as an “email address.”