why are special character not alloed in email address

Question

I was just curious about why only a few special character are not allowed in email address. Except a few special character like ".", "_" etc most of special character characters bot allowed. is this a technology constraint or just a convention without any reason ?

Answer 1

It's a blatant falsity that is unjustly imposed by overzealous email regexps.

Almost all characters can be used in email addresses.
"abc def+ghi/jkl@mno*pqr"@localhost is a valid email address.

Even without quoting, !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~@hi is valid.

Answer 2

Check RFC-2822 for details on the specification of internet email addresses.