On 5/23/02 5:57 AM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 23/5/02 10:31 am, "Julian Vrieslander" wrote: > >> On 5/22/02 5:31 AM, "Rick Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but just to be sure: >>> >>> When I tried to subscribe to a list like the Tomcat User list >>> (jakarta.apache.org), which uses ezmlm as the list manager, I'm asked to >>> confirm my subscription. >>> >>> In order to confirm, I'm supposed to send an empty reply to an address like >>> the following: >>> >>> mysql-digest-sc.1022057871.fjobppalmolechajidcj-rmann=latencyzero.com@lists. >>> mysql.com >>> >>> Unfortunately, if I try to send this email from Entourage (X 10.0.1 1331), I >>> get an error during send indicating that the server wouldn't accept the >>> address. However, if I send using Mail, it works fine. >> >> Yes, I reported a similar experience to this list several weeks ago. The >> problem seems to be triggered by the very long email addresses generated by >> the ezmlm list software. Some people claimed that it was a mail server >> issue. But, like you, I found my server had no problem accepting the >> address when I used Mail (in OS X), or Claris Emailer (in OS 9). When the >> message was sent from Entourage, it would not go through. > > I tried the example posted in the original message and it went through > Entourage vX without a hitch. Perhaps an accurate description of the issue is this: with some (possibly very long) email addresses, and using some SMTP servers, messages sent from Entourage fail to go through. But other email programs can send to those same addresses using the same SMTP servers. -- 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/>
