Hi Sam ! In addition to your account , may I add the following remark : there is indeed a problem with the "From" field you exemplified , thus :
> From: "Samuel\"my_nickname\"Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We do not know in fact why and how the back-slash characters crept in there , whether the sender himself put'm or some piece of software at his or another location on the net in-between ( relays ) , BUT there lies the problem : the "backslash" has a special meaning for the simple mail transport protocol ( SMTP , originally RFC 821 IIRW ) and by all means it should be AVOIDED in all header fields as it causes many problems treatment thereof is totally inconsequent between different layers and versions of the "transport agents" involved ... ) To make a rather complicated matter simple , the moral with back-slashes in headers is : DON'T ! HTH N.B. : backslashes are , of course , O.K. inside mail DATA ( = message bodies ) -- Steph' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
