On 12-Jul-2001 John Kielkopf wrote: > Got this email in, don't know how to answer it: > > <quote> > "Sir or Madam -- I've an unfortunate accidental situation with my current > dial-up ISP. I've a considerable number of clients whose e-mail addresses > are controlled by the Missouri Department of Revenue. Internally, as > MoDOR's e-mail guru explained to me today, they censor NOTHING regarding > addresses. However, their internal e-mail addresses are NOT standard > according to IS usage. The ISP which I have now I have acquired > involuntarily, in that company X bought company Y, and company X has > summarily discontinued its dial-up Internet service, and therefore I was > relegated to "first port in the storm", as it were. With all prior ISPs > I've used, sending/receiving e-mail to my DOR clients has been a perfectly > ordinary process, no issues or problems whatever.. > > The problem, so my ISP advises, arises from the fact that MoDOR use some > number of assorted "non-standard" characters in the prefix of their > e-address string. Apparently, SOME ISPs just treat the prefix of an e-addy > as a string of characters: send it along and call it a day. Some other > ISPs (mine for instance just now), parse the e-addy and give off syntax > errors if non-standard characters are included. I'm told by the e-mail > master at MoDOR that these addresses with non-standard characters are > called "A400 addresses", and I've no reason to doubt him. > > I'm looking for a dial-up ISP which WILL, without fail, or tapdance, or > other BS, allow the sending and receiving of e-mail to and from these types > of destination addresses." > </quote> > > Does XMail support "A400 addresses"? Well, I've no idea about that :) If You avoid the @,: characters You should be fine. - Davide
