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  • The section right below shows that it’s obsolete:

    A.6.1. Obsolete addressing
    
       Note in the below example the lack of quotes around Joe Q. Public,
       the route that appears in the address for Mary Smith, the two commas
       that appear in the "To:" field, and the spaces that appear around the
       "." in the jdoe address.
    
    ----
    From: Joe Q. Public <john.q.public@example.com>
    To: Mary Smith <@machine.tld:mary@example.net>, , jdoe@test   . example
    Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:52:37 +0200
    Message-ID: <5678.21-Nov-1997@example.com>
    
    Hi everyone.
    ----
    

    And in the spec itself, that syntax is named as “obs-phrase”.

    But yes, though obsolete, it is still legal syntax. So I guess I shouldn’t say it “does not conform to the standard”, but rather “just barely conforms to the standard”.