Alex Venn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said :
> > From: "Samuel\"my_nickname\"Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What is wrong with that ? The backslash is a common problem ! Under the simple mail transfer protocol , it is supposed to be an 'erase preceding character" when found inside a header field! That dates back from the times when the authors of those protocols or RFCs had in mind slow , teletype-like , character oriented terminals , possibly operated by a human typist who would make typing mistakes and needed an erase character : the backslash AFA Smtp was concerned ( RFC 821 ) . Of course nowadays hardly one does type their emails on a teletype , but still the old RFC requirements ( and several generation of "sendmail" agents ) take the backslashes off . In principle , a single backslash should be represented as 2 backslashes , but wait, Worse even , not all MTAs and trasmission systems act equally in presence of backslashes . I own one mailbox somewhere defined with a name in which two backslashes are included , as an anti-spam measure - and nobody (including me!) ever succeded in sending one email in there , either spam or not :) by whatever means , and I tried all the coding tricks I could think of based on the RFC ! Well sorry I must repeat : backslashes in a header are a no-no , unless you really want trouble ... -- Steph'
