Yes, the message from Mail did get through, since I received a notification from the daemon that my unsubscribe process was completed.
The programmer who designed that daemon may indeed deserve to be fired. But in the past few years I have had to deal with other automated systems which required very long email addresses. Paul, could it be that the error message from your ISP's server was becuase the address that I provided was bogus, and not because it was too long? The address shown below was altered from the real address that I was trying to reach. For the real address, substitute "gti-vr6.net" for "abc-xyz.net". I did not post the real address to this list, since I did not want people testing it and possibly messing up something (or accidentally resubscribing me). 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? -- Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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/>
