FWIW, I've had a similar experience recently trying to subscribe to a mailing list that used a similar confirmation system. If I use entourage x to send the mail, the mail gets bounced back with the same error that Paul is getting. If I send it with another email client, it goes through without issue.
Robert Occhialini On 4/24/02 10:23 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my case, Entourage didn't refuse to send it, but I got back a message > from my own ISP's mail (SMTP, I guess) server a few seconds after: > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <list-digest-uc.1019616783.dghciokgedlcdlnchgpo-julianv=mindspring.com@abc-x > yz.net> > (reason: 550 Host unknown) > > My guess would be that the absurd length of the address has introduced a > carriage return which makes it invalid even with the < > around it. It's > splitting the domain between two lines. Apple's Mail, either because it's > based on .rtf instead of text and may not introduce a return character at > all, or more likely because it's Unix-based and may be introducing LF > linefeeds which don't bother our SMTP servers, may not be hitting that > problem. I'd be extremely surprised to find out that a user name (before the > @ sign) of more than 70 characters is valid. I'm sure its invalid and > whatever idiot dreamed it up should be fired from his job. Are you certain > that the message sent from Mail actually got where it was supposed to be > going, even if it didn't get rejected by the SMTP server? -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
