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You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual

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Re: % in email addresses?

but never encountered a %.

It was a sort of kludge-your-own-routing. foo%bar@baz would get sent to baz which would then rewrite it to foo@bar and try to send that.

[Warning: Memories from 40 years ago, may be rusty.]

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