Are apostrophes valid in an email address?

[Chris Benson]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:49:47AM -0500, IvorW wrote:
> 
> The pending moerator request has come through to me, so mailman clearly thinks the address is valid.
> 
> Who's right?

mailman and the RFCs.

On my local mailserver:-

mail: john.o'neill at ...
mail: linda.o'connell at ...
mail: linda-ann.o'connell at ...
mail: tom.o'reilly at ...
mail: colm.o'brien at ...
mail: francis.o'sullivan at ...
mail: carmel.o'connell at ...
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Chris Benson