Re: designate an email address for testing at any provider

[Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>]

On Mar 29, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Nick Levinson wrote:

> A test-only email address should be recognized in standards, much as  
> test-only domains exist (e.g., example.com and *.test), for similar  
> purposes of having a token that can safely escape into the wild from  
> internal use and documentation without fear of representing an  
> actual account. I did not find an RFC or other standard providing  
> this.

When you sent this note, I immediately sent an email to  
test at example.com. It took a few days, as my mail handler queues things  
up and retries them for a while, but I eventually got a bounce. I  
suspect that any email address @example.com would have sufficed, as  
there is by definition no A record and no mail receiver for example.com.