> So basically this is either a problem that Outlook Express is using
> the \ character incorrectly to deference quotes, or that IMail IMAP
> service is failing to interpret these dereferenced characters when it
> processes the mailbox.
Microsoft wins this time. Instead of doing something dumb and saying it's the new way
to do it, they are doing something dumb that is already allowed.
You can have quotation marks where they are putting them, and they are correct to
quote them (IE From: "\"user name\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). But, they are doing
something nobody else does. Everyone else says, 'Hey, my name is User Name'. But,
Microsoft is saying 'Hey, my name is "User Name"'.
It's legal, but up to the receiving system to interpret what those quotes really mean
and how to handle them. If IMail says the user name is "/", that's acceptable. But,
if IMail gets so confused that it can't let someone pick up the mail via IMAP (for
example, thinking that the E-mail address is '"User Name" <username@...' instead of
just 'username@...' ), then it is at fault.
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-Scott
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