On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:02:41 -0500, Neil Parks wrote:
> On 23 Mar 2002 at 2:01, arachne-digest wrote:
>> From: "Thomas Tabler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: problem with oddball MSN and AOL e-mail addresses
>> Recently, it came to my attention that a friend of a friend uses an
>> odd arrangement of Captilization and spacing in an e-mail address. For
>> example, if an average SMTP server would send the address as
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], the AOL server would only send
>> it as John [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] {all one username, no
>> spacing in caps}. Arachne which uses the standard RFCs will not
>> properly show that on the status bar if it has spaces. Any ideas
>> mailbag users?
> Email addresses can't have spaces. If it looks like there's a space,
> it's most likely an underscore char which Arachne does not always
> display correctly.
Anyone wanting to distinguish a space from an underscore in an
email message being read within InSight, just press F6 to view
the message as text.
BTW, I have never seen an email address having a space, except in the
example shown in the text quoted above. The space in the email address
means that the email address is non RFC compliant. Any message
prepared using such an email address in the "To:" header won't fly.
Sam Heywood
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