Handling Leftover Local Addresses

Whatever is left after all preceding rules in the parse rule set 0 have selected delivery agents is probably a local address. Here, we check for a username without a host part:

R $+       $#local $:$1        regular local names

Notice that the user part is not focused; it is unfocused because there is no host part on lone local usernames.

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