valid addresses supplied to "-n" treated as invalid, and invalid addresses treated as valid

[ghost]

case 1: valid email rejected

This command should work:

pius -n bob@localhost -H 127.0.0.1 -P 587...

but it results in pius: error: Option -n: Value bob@localhost does not appear like a well formed email address

case 2: possibly invalid email accepted

My knee-jerk next attempt was pius -n [email protected] -H 127.0.0.1 -P 587..., but that address is refused by the mail server. However it was submitted by pius, so pius regarded it as a valid address. It's unclear to me if it is valid. This thread suggests some tools regard it as valid, so maybe pius is doing the right thing in case 2.

[jaymzh]

bob@localhost is... arguably an invalid mail address for this purpose. If that's a UID in a key, I cannot send encrypted email to it, nor can I send validate it and sign that UID.

It is true that you could have an email at a TLD, theoretically, but I'm not aware of anywhere that's done, so I'm not sure that it's a problem in the real world.

As to name@, yeah that's bogus, and we should fix that. Not pressing, but a valid bug.